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By    EDWARD     V  E  R  N  O  N,  E^; 

VICE    AD  MIR  A L  of  the  Blue, 

AND 

Commander  in  Chief  of  his  Majejifs  Ships  and 
^elfeh  in  the  W  e  s  T-I  n  d  i  e  s. 


c      T   T  ^  ^  Majefty*s  Ships  defigned  for  the  pre- 
fent  Expedition  being  now  in  a  Readinefs 


T'^  »9/r  C  H  A  L  o  N  E  R  O  G  L  E,  Rear-Admiral  of  the 
Blue  Squadron  of  his  Majejifs  Fleet. 
S  I  R, 

H 

JL    Jl   to  proceed  to  Sea,   agreeable  to  my  ge- 
neral Orders  for  their  being  ready  as  this  Day ; 
r         And  as  the  Difficulties  of  the  Channel  for  our 
Q     getting  to  Sea,  make  it  highly  imprudent  to  at- 

1  tempt  doing  it  together  ; 

You  are  hereby  required  and  direded,  to  detach 

,  two  Ships  of  your  Divifion  to  Sea,  with  the  iirft 

3  Detachment  of  Tranfports  that  General  tVentworib 

g  Ihall  fend  you  Advice  are  ready  to  proceed  to  Sea  ; 

2  and  to  detach  two  more  Ships  of  your  Divifion, 
ui  with  fuch  as  fhall  be  ready  to  proceed  on  the  fe- 
]\  cond  Day ;  and  to  go  out  with  the  Remainder  of 
<  your  Divifion  on  the  third  Day ;  ordering  thofc 

Detachments  that  have  prcceeded  you  to  be  work- 
ing to  windward  under  an  eafy  fail,  to  colledl  them- 
felves  together  under  Tellows,  or  Morant  Bay,  till 
you  come  up  with  them,  for  proceeding  with 
them,  with  an  eafy  fail,  to  our  firft  Place  of  ge- 

B  neral 


[6] 

neral  Rendezvous  in  Donna  Maria  Bay  :  Which 
Rendezvous  the  Colonel  of  the  Train,  and  the 
Agent  of  the  Tranfports,  have  both  of  them  my 
Orders  to  deliver  to  the  refpedive  Storefhips  and 
Tranfports  under  their  Orders  ;  and  it  is  to  be  de- 
li ver'd  fealed  up,  for  being  open'd  only  in  cafe 
of  Separation.  And  you  will  give  the  faid  Ren- 
dezvous to  the  commanding  Officer  of  the  feparate 
Detachments  of  your  Divifion  :  And  you  know  the 
next  Rendezvous  that  is  to  be  given,  in  purfuance 
of  our  laft  general  Council  of  War. 

As  I  fhall  be  following  you  myfelf  the  next  Day, 
and  leaving  Orders  with  fome  of  my  Divifion  to 
bring  up  the  remaining  Ships  after  us,  I  fhall  foon 
join  you  ;  or  you  will  have  a  fhort  Retreat  to  me, 
in  cale  of  meeting  any  fuperior  Squadron  of  the 
Enemy. 

All  Spanijh  Ships  or  VefTels  that  you  fliall  meet 
with,  you  are  to  ufe  your  utmoft  Endeavours  to 
take,  fmk,  burn,  or  deftroy. 

And  as  to  the  daring  and  unauthorized  Attempts 
of  the  Subjects  of  any  Nation  to  cover  and  protect 
the  Ships,  Peifons,  or  EfFe6ls  of  his  Majefty*s 
Enemies  the  Spaniards  i  you  are  to  take  care  to 
prevent  the  lame,  and  to  feize  the  faid  Spaniards 
Ships,  Perfons,  or  Effeds,  wherever  you  fhall  find 
the  fame  on  the  Seas  *,  as  you  will  the  Ships  and 
VefTels  of  any  Nation  whatfoevcr,  that  you  fhall 
meet  with  attempting  to  fupply  his  Majefty's  Ene- 
mies the  Spaniards  with  contraband  Stores,  for  their 
being  further  proceeded  againfl  according  to  Law  : 
Taking  care  to  give  particular  Diredions,  for  fe- 
curing  the  Papers  and  Effeds  of  all  Ships  or  Vef- 
fels  fo  taken  or  feizcd,  from  all  manner  of  Plunder 
and  Embezzlement. 

But  on  meeting  any  of  the  Guarda  Cojlas  of  his 
mofl  Chrifiian  Majefty,  you  are  to  prefcrve  with 

them 


[7-] 

them   that   good  Correfpondence  that   ought   to^ 
fubfift  between   the  Subjefts  of  Princes  in  Amity 
with  each  other.     For,  &c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne  in  Port  Royal  HzrhovoTy  • 
Jamaica^  this  2  5thof7««f,  1741. 

E.  Vernon. 


^0  Captain  R  e  n  t  o  N  e  of  the  Rippon. 
By,  ^c, 

YO  U  are  hereby  required  and  direded,  with  his 
Majefty's  Ship  the  Rippon  under  your  Com- 
mand, to  put  to  Sea  with  all  poflible  Expedition, 
and  make  the  beft  of  your  Way  to  windward ;  and 
to  get  up  into  a  proper  Station  for  cruizing  to 
windward  of  St.  Jago,  for  intercepting  the  Trade 
of  the  Enemy  going  to  or  coming  from  that  Port, 
and  obferving  fuch  other  Diredions  as  you  have 
my  verbal  Orders  for.  And  the  Seahorfe  being  un- 
der my  Orders  to  cruize  off  there  to  the  loth. 
of  July,  you  are  to  look  out  for  her  in  the  faid 
Station,  as  you  may  expeft  to  meet  Intelligence 
from  her,  for  your  better  Government  in  the  Execu- 
tion of  my  Orders.  And  on  meeting  with  her,  you 
are  to  deliver  Capr.  Allen  my  Orders  for  putting 
himfelf  under  your  Command,  and  to  continue 
him  cruizing  under  your  Orders,  as  beft  fhall  an- 
fwer  the  due  Execution  of  the  Service  you  are  or- 
dered upon ;  either  by  keeping  him  off  St.  Jago 
and  yourfelf  further  to  windward  of  Walthenam 
B^y,  or  porting  him  other  wife,  as  you  fhall  judge 
moll  expedient  from  the  Intelligence  you  may 
receive. 

All  Spanijh  Ships  and  Veflels  that  you  fhall  meet 
with,  you  are  to  ufc  your  utmoft  Endeavours  to 
take,  fink,  burn,  or  deftroy. 

6  2  And 


[  8] 

And  as  to  the  daring  and  unauthorized  Attempts 
of  the  Subje<5ls  of  any  Nation,  to  rover  and  protect 
the  Ships,  Perfons,  or  Effects  of  his  Majefty*s 
Enemies  the  Spaniards  \  you  are  not  to  permit  the 
fame,  but  to  feize  the  faid  Ships,  Perfons,  or  Ef- 
fects of  his  Majefty's  Enemies  the  Spaniards^  where- 
ever  you  fhall  find  the  fame  on  the  Seas  ;  as  you 
will  the  Ships  and  VefTels  of  any  Nation,  that  you 
fhall  meet  with  going  to  fupply  his  Majefty's  Ene- 
mies the  Spaniards  with  Contraband  Stores,  for 
their  being  further  proceeded  againft  here  accord- 
ing to  Law. 

,  But  on  meeting  with  any  of  the  Guarda  Cojias 
of  his  moft  Chriftian  Majefty,  you  are  carefully  to 
preferve  with  them  that  good  Correfpondence  that 
ought  to  fubfift  between  Officers  in  the  ServicQ 
of  Princes  in  Amity  with  each  other. 

And  you  are  to  continue  cruizing  a  little  to 
windward  of  Walthenam  Bay,  to  the  30th  Day  of 
July  next,  or  your  looner  receiving  further  Or- 
ders from  me  by  fome  of  my  Cruizers  in  the  faid 
Station.     For  which  this  Ihall  be  your  Warrant. 

Given  under  my  Hand,  on  board  his  Majefty's 
Ship  the  B(ryne^  in  Fort  Royal  Harbour,  Jamaica^ 
this  2  5th  of  JunCy  1741. 

e:v. 


To  the  Hon,  General  Y/eut wort h. 
SIR, 

HIS  Majefty's  Ships  defigned  for  the  prefent 
Expedition  being  now  in  a  Readinefs  for  the 
Sea,  agreeable  to  my  Orders  to  them  to  be  ready 
as  this  Day,  I  could  not  omit  the  firft  Opportunity 
of .  acquainting  you  with  it. 

And  as  the  Difficulties  of  the  Channel  for  our 
going  out,  make  it  nectary  to  proceed  to  Sea  by 

Detach- 


[9] 

Detachments,  Sir  Chaloner  O^le  has  my  Orders  for 
detaching  two  of  his  Divifion  to  Sea,  as  Convoy  to 
the  firft  of  our  Tranfports,  or  Storefhips,  that  you 
Ihall  fignify  to  him  your  having  in  a  Readinefs  to 
proceed  with  them.  And  he  will  detach  two  more 
the  fecond  Day,  and  go  out  himfelf  with  thofe  that 
are  ready  the  third  -,  as  I  propofe  to  do  myfelf  the 
fourth  Day  with  my  Divifion,  leaving  only  behind 
us  one  Ship,  as  Convoy  to  whomever  you  may  not 
have  ready  to  proceed  with  us  then. 

And  I  believe  you  will  agree  with  me,  in  think- 
ing we  cannot  too  foon  proceed,  to  avail  ourlelvcs 
of  the  Alarm  that  may  be  given  his  Majefty's  Ene- 
mies, by  the  Appearance  of  the  large  Fleet  under" 
Convoy  of  Mr.  Le0ock*s  Squadron  towards  the 
Hffvanna  :  And  the  fooner  we  are  going,  the  longer 
Time  we  (hall  have  to  ad:  in  before  the  Rains  come 
in  upon  us. 

And  Capt.  Rentone  has  my  Orders  for  proceed- 
ing to  Sea  before  us  to-morrow,  for  making  all 
neceflary  Obfervations,  as  I  nryentioned  to  you  that 
I  intended. 

With  my  bed  Wifhes  for  Succcfs  to  our  joint- 
Endeavours  for  his  Majefty*s  Service,  I  am, 
SIR, 

Boyne,  June  25,  1741.  XoUT Mqfi  OkiHefU, 

Humble  Servant^ 

E.  V. 


To  the  Hdn.  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

AFTER  congratulating  you  on  our  Forces 
having  hitherto  got  io  fafely  into  the  Sea, 
without  any  ill  Accident ;  I  fend  this  Letter  by 
Capt. Tr^(7r,  to  let  you  know  I  dcfign,  as  I  -formerly 
acquainted  you,    to  fail  my  fetf  to-morrow,  with 

the 


[  lo] 

the  Remainder  of  my  Divifion  that  are  in  prefent 
Condition  for  proceeding.  And  as  it  is  lb  necef- 
fary  for  us  to  be  at  the  Head  of  our  Forces  as  foon 
as  poffible,  and  to  keep  together,  I  am  perfwaded 
you  are  very  ready  and  defirous  of  faiUng  at  the 
fame  Time  :  And  if  there  fhould  be  any  of  your 
Tranfports  or  Storefhips  that  may  require  any 
longer  Delay,  if  you  will  pleafe  to  advife  me  of  it, 
as  I  have  fome  Ships  that  will  follow  me  foon,  I 
will  leave  all  the  neceffary  Orders  with  them,  for 
taking  them  under  their  Convoy  and  bringing 
them  after  us. 

When  I  refleft  on  the  prodigious  Sum  this  Ex- 
pedition has  coft  our  Royal  Mafter,  and  how  high 
the  Nation  has  carried  their  Expectations  from  it, 
I  cannot  but  be  animated  with  a  Zeal  to  exert  the 
utmoft  of  my  Abilities,  to  anfwer  the  Expediation 
of  our  Royal  Mafter  and  the  Nation  -,  and  am  per- 
fwaded you  are  animated  with  the  fame  Zeal,  and 
will  look  with  a  juft  Refentment  on  all  who  fhall 
ihew  any  Want  of  it.     I  am, 

SIR, 
J^oynf,  June  30,  1741.  Your  mofi  Obedient, 

Humble  Servant, 

E.  V. 


To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

AFTER  congratulating  you  on  our  being  got 
fafe  out  into  the  Sea  without  any  Accident, 
with  our  great  Ships,  and  through  that  hazardous 
Channel  (which  I  chink  a  good  Providence,  and 
a  happy  Omen  of  our  future  Succefs  -,)  I  fend  this 
to  deiire  you  would  return  me,  by  the  Bearer,  the 
Papers  I  left  with  you  for  your  Perufal,  as  I  have 
a  View  of  making  a  further  Ufe  of  them,  as  a  Key 

to 


[ "  ]  ^ 

to  my  future  Enquiries,  to  avail  ourfelves  ^11  we 
can  of  the  happy  Providence  of  having  in  our 
Hands  fo  many  proper  Perfons  to  enquire  of. 

I  am  giving  Orders  now  to  Capt.  Cleland,  to- 
take  under  his  Care,  Prote<5bion  and  Convoy,  the 
Leewardmoft  of  our  Tranfports  and  Storefliips, 
that  we  way  advance  a  little  fafter,  to  get  up  with 
the  main  Body  of  thofe  fcnt  to  Sea  before  us. 
I  am, 

SIR, 
Boy  fie  at  Sea,  July  2,  Tour  mo  ft  Obedient, 

*74^'  Humble  Servant, 

E.  V. 


To  Captain  Cleland,  of  the  Worcefler. 
By,  ^c. 

YO  U  are  hereby  required  and  direded,  to  come 
with  an  eafy  Sail  after  us,  for  keeping  under 
your  Care,  Prote<5lion  and  Convoy,  the  Leeward- 
moft of  our  Tranfports  and  Storefhips,  and  con- 
ducing them  fafely  to  the  firft  Place  of  our  general 
Rendezvous,  (which  you  have  had  delivered  you 
open,  and  they  have  received  like  wife)  off  Cape 
Donna  Maria.  And  after  getting  them  there,  if 
you  don't  find  me  there,  or  other  Orders  from  me 
by  fome  of  my  Cruizers,  you  are  then  to  proceed 
with  them  to  my  fecond  Place  of  general  Rendez- 
vous (which  you  have  received  feaPd,  to  be  open*d 
there  j)  and  to  give  them  there  Orders  conformable 
to  it,  for  knowing  where  to  come,  if  by  any  Acci- 
dent they  fhould  lofe  Company  with  you.  And 
this  you  are  ftridlly  in  joined  to  take  all  poffible 
Care  in,  as  you  muft  expecft  to  anfwer,  at  your 
Peril,  for  any  Difappointment  that  may  arile  to 
the  Expedition  through  any  Careleflliefs  or  Remifl- 
nefs  in  you,   or  your  Officers;    whom  you  will 

give 


[    12    ] 

give  the  ftridbeft  Orders  to,  for  being  careful  in 
their  relpe6tive  Watches ;  and  you  will  carry  a 
Top  Light,  for  their  keeping  Company  with  you, 
and  making  all  the  proper  Signals  to  them  by 
Day  and  by  Night  *,  and  repeat  my  Signals  while 
we  are  in  View,  that  they  may  obferve  your  being 
appointed  to  take  Care  of  them.     For,  ^c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne^  at  Sea,  this  2d  of 
July,  1 741. 


To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

AS  I  am  going  to  fend  Capt.  Broderick,  in  the 
Sborebam,  to  Jamaica,  who  is  juft  returned 
from  his  Cruize  off  Carthagena,  I  have  fent  an 
Officer  to  wait  on  you  for  any  Letters  you  may 
have  to  fend  to  Jamaica  by  him.  He  found  every 
Thing  lying  in  the  Condition  we  left  it  in,  having 
had  the  Opportunity  to  obferve  it,  by  his  fending 
his  Lieutenant  in  at  Boca  Grande,  and  fo  by  Cajiillo 
Grande,  to  the  Town,  with  fome  Prifoners  I  had 
promifed  the  Vice  Roy  the  RemifHon  of  to  him  : 
But  they  ftopp*d  the  Boat  before  it  reached  the 
Town,  and  defired  the  Officer  to  go  back  to  Caf- 
alio  Grande,  and  wait  there  for  the  Anfwer  to  my 
Letter.  Whilft  he  was  there,  he  had  the  Opportu- 
nity to  obferve  they  were  loading  Stones  from  the 
Ruins  of  that  Caftle,  to  carry  to  Carfhagena  -,  and 
he  learnt  by  a  Negroe  that  fpoke  Englifh,  that 
they  were  employed  in  new  Works,  which  they 
were  raifing  at  Hemini,  expelling  another  Vifit 
from  us.  He  looked  in  at  Boca  Chica  likewifc, 
And  found  Things  juft  as  we  left  them,  only  a 
Guard  placed  at  the  Ruins  of  Boca  Chica  Caftle, 

After  congratulating  you  on  our  happily  being 
got  fo  far  in  our  Way  that  we  may  foon  hope  to 


t  '3  ] 

be  aifembled,  for  proceeding  to  Walthenaffi  \  I  fend 
you,  inclored,  the  Examination,  taken  in.Wnring, 
oijohn  Drake,  who  is  fo  well  acquainted  with  the 
Road  from  thence  to  St.  Jago.  And  as  that  is  an 
open  Town,  and  the  Accefs  to  it  fo  plain  and  clear 
from  thence,  I  cannot  but  flatter  rnyielf  we  have 
a  very  eafy  and  fure  Game  to  play.  I  am  fully 
perfwaded  that  ther^  is  no  way  to  begin  it  with 
Succefs  but  from  thence  ;  and  I  think  it  is  fo  fure 
of  Succefs,  that  I  mention  it  lb,  that  you  may 
think  of  giving  neceffary  Orders  for  preparing 
your  recovered  Men  to  be  ready  for  embarking,  to 
come  to  us  on  the  firft  Orders.  I  am, 
SIR, 

Boyncy  off  the  Navajfa^  ToUT  moji  Ohe^eUt, 

>/ri2,  1741.                      Humble  Servant, 
E.  V. 

To    cS/>  C  H  A  L  O  N  E  R  O  G  L  E. 

S  P'R, 

AFTER  congratulating  you  on  our  having  got 
our  Flock  up  in  fo  fair  a  Way,  I  am  glad  to 
acquaint  you,  I  have  likewife  had  the  Pleafure  to 
have  my  Cruizers  join  me,  both  from  Carthagena 
and  Leogane  :  And  as  they  bring  nothing  very  ma- 
terial, mall  defer  acquainting  you  with  Particulars 
till,  I  have  the  Pleafure  of  feeing  you  next. 

But  having  drawn  up  the  Information  from  the 
Perfbn  I  have  had  fo  long  on  board,  in  Writing, 
to  fend  it  to  the  General  to-day,  and  to  let  him 
fee  how  very  prafticable  it  is  to  come  to  St.  Jago 
from  JVahhenam  *,  I  fend  you  now  inclofed  a  Copy 
of  it. 

And  having  got  fome  further  Informations  by 
means  of  a  Prifoner  from  thfcnce,  I  think  we  have 
all  the  Lights  we  want,  and  fhall  be  glad  to  chat 
over  Particulars  with  you. 

C  I  intend 


L 


[   '4] 

I  intend  now  only  to  gather  together  what  we 
have  of  our  Flock,  and  to  proceed  direftly  with 
them  to  Walthenam  :  But  want  to  fee  Wallace,  to 
know  if  he  has  yet  dehvered  qut  our  fecond  Ren- 
dezvous for  Walthenam  Bay,  which,  if  not  done,  will 
be  neceflary  to  be  done  firfl  -,  and  then  I  will  leave 
Capt.  T^ent  to  cruize  for  a  fhort  Time  off  Cape 
Donna  Maria,  for  picking  up  all  Stragglers,  and 
bringing  them  after  us.     I  am, 

SIR, 
Boyne,  ofF  the  Navafa,         Tour  moji  Obedient, 

July  I  z,  1 741 .  Humble  Servant, 

E.  V. 

P.  S.  Capt.  Allen  brought  me  fixty-four  Pri- 
foners  from  St.  Jago  the  Evening  you  failed.  Pray 
order  your  People  to  be  careful  in  repeating  my^ 
Signals. 


Declaration  of  Jo liti  Drake,  Mariner. 

HE  was  taken,  going  from  the  Bay  of  Honduras 
to  New  England,  by  a.  Spanijh  Schooner,  about 
thirteen  Years  ago,  and  carried  into  Trinidado ; 
where  he  ftaid  about  a  Week,  and  then  went  to 
Puerto  del  Ppncipe,  in  order  to  get  a  Paflage  to 
Jamaica  :  But  finding  he  could  get  a  very  com- 
fortable Living  there  by  fifhing,  he  remained  and 
followed  that  Employment  about  ten  Years,  fome- 
times  at  Puerto  del  Principe,  fometimes  at  Bayamo, 
Atid  fometimes  at  St.Ja^o :  From  whence  he  went 
to  Punto  d*  Enemigo,  a  Place  about  feven  Leagues 
to  windward  of  Guantinam,  v/here  he  lived  about 
two  Years  by  hunting,  paying  one  Don  Jofipb 
Muftilier  (a  Prieft)  theXhird  of  whatever  he  killed. 
He  is  very  well  acquainted  with  all  tlie  Coaft, 
and  as  far  as  about  five  Leagues  within  Land, 

from 


from  St.Jago  to  the  faid  Punio  d*  Enemigo.  Guan- 
tinam  is  a  fine  large  Harbour,  about  two  or  three 
Leagues  broad,  and  has  a  Frefti- Water  River  run- 
ning into  it  on  the  Leewardmoft  Side  5  up  which 
River  for  about  a  League  there  is  four  or  five  Fa- 
thom Water,  and  on  the  Larboard  Side  the  King's 
Salina.  Further  up,  the  Water  fhoals,  but  in  fuch 
a  Manner  that  this  Ship's  Longboat  can  very  well 
pafs  about  three  or  four  Leagues ;  farther  than 
which  even  a  Doree  cannot  pafs,  being  only  Ankle 
deep.  About  two  Leagues  from  the  King's  Salinay 
upwards  on  the  Starboard  Side,  are  two  other  Sa- 
linas^ from  which  Salinas  to  a  Village  called  Santa 
Catalina^  containing  about  an  hundred  Houfes  and 
one  Church,  it  is  eight  Leagues.  The  Inhabitants 
arc  Indians  and  Mulaitoes,  who  live  by  hunting  and 
raifing  of  Stock.  This  Village  of  Sania  Catalina 
lies  in  the  direft  Road  from  St.  Jago  to  Baraccoat 
it  being  from  St.  Jago  to  Santa  Catalina  thirteen 
Leagues,  and  from  Santa  Catalina  to  Baraccoa  thirty 
Leagues ;  and  he  has  himfelf  walked  from  Santa 
Catalina  to  St.  Jago  in  twelve  Hours.  The  Road 
from  the  Barkadier  to  Santa  Catalina  is  about  two 
Leagues  along  the  River  Side;  from  thence  a 
good  open  Road  for  about  two  Leagues  more, 
when  there  is  a  fine  large  Savanna  for  about  two 
Leagues  more  ;  and  the  remaining  two  Leagues, 
the  Road  is  likewifc  good  and  open,  you  every  now 
and  then  meeting  with  a  Crawle  or  Cattle-Pen. 
From  Santa  Catalina  to  St.  Jago.,  the  Road  is  for 
the  moft  part  woody.  Hills  and  Dales  ;  but,  in  the 
narroweft  Part,  fo  broad  that  ten  Men  may  very 
well  go  a-breaft;  and  every  here  and  there  you 
will  fee  a  Crawle  or  Cattle-Pen,  and  find  three  or 
four  Rivulets  in  the  Pafllxge.  In  the  dry  Seafon 
of  the  Year,  which  is  from  Obloher   to  JunL\  all 

C  2  thefe 


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thefe  Roads  are  very  good,  and,  even  in  the  rainy 
Seafon,  paflable  without  much  Difficulty. 

'The  foregoing  Account  I  affirm  to  he  true^  to  the 
beji  of  my  Knowledge.  Dated  on  board  his  Majcfty^s 
Ship  the  Boyne,  July  lo,   1741-. 

^yitf>efs,  John  Drake. 

Thomas  Watfon, 
William  Rogers. 


Declaration  <?/ Henry  Cavelier. 

HE  was  Carpenter  of  an  AJfiento  Brigantine, 
feized  in  the  Port  of  St.  Jago  about  twenty- 
three  Months  ago,  and,  with  all  the  reft  of  the 
Crew,  made  a  Prifoner.  Whilft  there,  he  was  em- 
ployed at  Morro^  EJirella,  and  Santa  Catalina  Caf- 
tles,  making-  a  Shed  for  the  Engliflj  Prifoners  at 
work  to  lie  under,  repairing  three  Canoas,  making 
one  hundred  and  fifty  Hodds,  fifty  Rammers  for 
ramming  and  levelling  the  Batteries,  a  large  Wheel 
for  boring  fome  honeycombed  Guns,  cutting  down 
Timber  in  the  Mountain  about  a  League  and  a 
half  off,  making  nine  Carriages,  Doors  and  Door 
Frames  for  the  Bread-Room,  two  Doors  for  the 
intended  Powder  -  Room ,  and  fundry  Coopers 
Tools. 

At  the  Entrance  of  the  Port,  on  the  Starboard 
Side,  is  a  low  Battery  called  the  Punto^  which  has 
two  12  Pounders  and  three  6  Pounders,  and  orie 
Gun  (i  4  Pounder)  at  the  Entrance  below,  point- 
ing to  the  Road  which  leads  from  the  Bay  where 
you  land.  About  half  way  up  the  Hill,  by  Steps, 
IS  another  Battery,  called  Plataforma  Grande^  front- 
ing the  Sea,  with  eight  42  Pounders  and  two  1 8 
Pounders  ;  with ,  feven  Caves  thereon  for  lodging 
Soldiers  and  Provifions,  the  Weftermoft  of  which 
is  for  a  Powder-Room,   and  the  Eaftermoft  for  a 

Cook 


Cook-Room.  The  Powder-Room  is  partition'd 
from  the  reft  by  the  folid  Hill,  but  all  the  others 
are  flufh,  without  any  Partition  at  all.  The  En- 
trance into  thefe  Caves  is  about  ten  Feet  wide,  and 
they  are  dug  into  the  folid  HSll.  Higher  up,  is  ano- 
ther Battery,  which  has  two  honeycombed  Guns, 
4  Pounders,  and  a  Ciftern  which  will  contain  about 
two  or  three  thoufand  Gallons  of  Water.  Higher 
up,  is  another  fmall  Platform,  with  a  little  Ciftern 
to  contain  about  nine  or  ten  Hogfheads  of  Water  ; 
this  Platform  has  no  Guns.  Higher  up,  is  ano- 
ther Platform,  about  twenty  Feet  from  the  Top  of 
the  Hill,  which  has  ten  Guns,  4  Pounders,  two  of 
them  Brafs ;  three  of  thefe  Guns  point  to  the  Sea, 
all  the  reft  to  the  Land.  Under  this  Platform  is 
the  Entrance  into  the  Morro  Caftle.  Above,  thro* 
a  Gate  about  ten  Feet  wide,  about  fixteen  Feet  from 
the  Gate,  is  a  dry  Mote,  about  fixteen  or  eighteen 
Feet  wide,  and  as  many  deep  •,  and  about  fixteen 
Feet  from  this  Mote,  is  another,  about  eleven  Feet 
wide  and  as  many  deep,  with  a  Draw-bridge  over 
each. 

The  Eftrella  has  a  Battery  of  1 8  Pounders,  and, 
about  twenty  Feet  below,  a  fmall  Battery  of  three 
Guns,  1 8  Pounders,  both  fronting  the  Entrance  of 
the  Port ;  and  on  the  fime  level  with  the  ten-gun 
Battery,  is  an  Angle  fronting  crofs  the  Harbour, 
which  has  itvtw  Guns,  4  Pounders,  none  of  them 
mounted,  the  Carriages  not  being  made  when  he 
came  away.  This  Ejhella  is  cafily  furprized,  fe- 
veral  Paths  leading  to  the  Top  thereof,  from 
which  you  will  fire  down  upon  all  the  laid  Batte- 
ries, or  even  knock  the  Men  on  the  Head  with  the 
Stones  from  the  Top  :  The  Eaftermoft  Side  is 
open,  and  without  any  Defence.  The  Ejhella  once 
gained  will  command  the  Punio^  the  Weftermoft 

End 


[  i8] 

End  of  Plataforma  Grande,  and  the  Top  of  Morro 
Caflle. 

A  little  to  the  Northward  of  the  Efirella  is  ano- 
ther little  Battery,  called  Santa  Catalina,  which  has 
two  1 2  Pounders  lying  almoft  level  with  the  Wa- 
ter, and  fronting  the  Entrance  of  the  Port  j  this 
Battery,  with  twenty  Men  only,  may  be  eafily  fur- 
prized  and  taken  at  any  Time. 

About  a  League  and  a  half  to  windward  of  this 
Morro  Caftle,  is  a  little  Battery,  called  Juraguacita, 
which  has  four  Guns,  and  a  Mote  round  it ;  he 
was  not  nearer  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  Yards  to 
it,  fo  cannot  give  a  more  particular  Defcription  • 
thereof. 

About  four  Leagues  and  a  half  farther,  to  the 
Eaftward,  is  another  Battery  of  eight  Guns,  called 
Juragua  Grande,  which  he  was  informed  of  by  the 
Engineer  and  fundry  Spaniards,  but  never  faw  it 
himfelf. 

Between  this  Battery  and  the  City,  about  Mid- 
way, he  has  been  informed,  there  is  another,  built 
on  a  rifing  Ground,  which  is  faid  to  mount  fixteen 
Guns  -,  but  cannot  tell  any  thing  of  it  from  his 
own  Knowledge. 

The  foregoing  is  a  true  Information,  to  the  heji  of 
wy  Knowledge.  Dated  on  board  his  Majefly*s  Ship  the 
Boyne,  this  nth  Day  of  July,  1 74 1 . 

^itnefs,  Henry  Cavelier. 

Thomas  Watlon, 
W.  Rogers. 

To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

AS  I  fee  moft  of  our  Flock  in  fight,  I  purpofe 
foon  to  be  making  fail  for  Walthenam  ;  and 
have  made  the  Signal  for  all  Mafters  of  Merchant 
Ships,  and  for  all  the  Mafters  of  the  Tranlports 

and 


[  '9  1 

and  Storefhips  coming  to  receive  their  fecond  Ren- 
dezvous in  fValthenam  Bay  ;  leaft  Mr.  Wallace  and 
Major  hewis  Ihould  not  have  had  an  Opportunity 
to  deliver  out  tbofe  they  had  in  Orders  from  me. 
But  as  none  of  the  Mafters  feem  to  take  any  No- 
tice of  the  Signal,  I  fhould  be  glad,  ifo  you  have 
^y  Signal  they  will  take  more  Notice  of,  that  you 
will  be  pleafed  to  make  it,  and  give  Walthemm 
Bay  for  the  next  Place  of  Rendezvous  to  them,  in 
Cafe  of  Separation. 

ThePerfon  whofe  Information  I  fcnt  you,  I  have 
on  board  •,  and  he  will  be  ready  at  your  Service. 
I  think  no  Man  living  could  have  had  greater  Op- 
portunities for  being  acquainted  with  the  Roads  in 
thofe  Parts,  than  one  ranging  in  them  for  his  JUive- 
lyhood  for  fo  long  a  Time.  I  am, 
SIR, 

Boyne,  ofF  t\icNavaJfa,  XoUT  mofi  Obedient, 

July  II,  1 74 J .  Humble  Servant^ 

E.V. 


To  ^/r  Ch  A  LONER  Ogle. 
SIR, 

T Hough  I  made  the  Signal  Yefterday  for  Maf- 
ters of  Merchant  Ships,  and  have  repeated 
it  torday,  yet  not  one  Mafter  of  Tranfport  or 
Storefhip  has  come  to  it,  to  receive  Orders  for  our 
fecond  Place  of  Rendezvous  in  JValtbenam  Bay, 
which  I  defign  now  putting  for  a?  fpon  as  we  have 
any  Wind. 

I  have  difpatched  away  the  Tilhury  and  the  Lud- 
low Caftle,  of  my  Divifion,  for  Donna  Maria,  for 
picking  up  all  that  may  have  draggled  that  Way, 
and  bringing  them  to  us  in  fValthetiam  Bay  ;  and 
have  given  Orders  to  the  Princefs  Louifa  and  Expe- 
riment, of  your  Divifion,  for  going  to  the  Ships 

to 


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to  Leeward  of  us,  to  get  them  together,  and  bring 
them  to  us  there  Hkewife. 

And  I  made  the  general  Signal  for  all  Captains 
now,  that,  in  Cafe  of  Separation,  every  one  may 
colledl  together  thofe  near  him,  and  bring  them 
to  the  faid'general  Rendezvous  in  Walthenam. 

And  as  loon  as  they  are  come  to  the  Signal,  I 
will  make  fail  to  lead  with  my  Divifion  ;  and  de- 
fire  you  would  bring  up  the  Stern moft  of  them 
with  your  Divifion,  that  we  may  all  get  to  our 
general  Rendezvous  as  foon  as  may  be  :  And  I 
have  ordered  the  Kent  to  take  under  her  Care  and 
Tow  the  Tranfport  that  made  the  Signal  of  Dif- 
trefs,  and  to  bring  her  to  Walthenam  Bay. 

Captain  Allen  has  joined  us  this  Morning ;  he 
left  Port  Royal  on  Wednefday  laft,  but  no  News 
from  England  fince  our  failing. 

But  the  Rofe  Man  of  War  lately  convoy'd  from 
Carolina  fome  Ships  ^ixhRice  for  the  Fleet,  which 
he  faw  in  fight  of  Jamaica,  and  then  returned  to 
his  Station,  and  they  are  fafe  arrived  in  the  Harbour. 

I  long  to  fee  our  Flock  aflembled  at  our  general 
Rendezvous,  that  we  may  be  doing  ;  and  am, 

S  I  R, 
Boyne,  ofF  the  Navaja,         Tonr  moft  Obedient^ 

July  I  i,  17^1.  Humble  Servant, 

E.  V. 


To  Sir  Cu  A  LoUiKO Ghz. 
S^IR, 

AFTER    congratulating  you    on   our   good 
Landfall  yeflerday,  and  fair  Proved:  of  get- 
ting our  Fleet  in  to-day  ; 

As  I  am  perfwaded  you  are  entirely  of  Opinion 
with  me,  that  we  Hiould  lofe  no  Time  in  advanc- 
ing and  getting  a  Footing  on  Shore ;  and  as  I  un- 

derftand 


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derftand  our  rmali  VeflTels  can  get  above  the  Salinas,  I 
am  going  to  difpatch  Cdi'gt.ForreJi  in,  in  the  Bomb- 
Ketch,  to  take  the  Command  of  thofe  firft  de- 
ligned  to  get  up  as  high  as  they  can  go  •,  which 
are,  his  Bomb-Ketch,  my  Brig  Tender  and  Sloop, 
the  Bomb  Tender  from  my  Divifion,  and  Captain 
Ormond  Tompfon  in  his  Firefhip,  from  your  Diviiion. 
And  I  fhall  fend  my  Company  of  Americans  on 
board  thofe  of  my  Divifion,  and  defire,  as  foon  as 
you  get  in,  you  would  fend  your  Company  of  Ame- 
ricans on  board  the  Firefhip  of  your  Divifion,  to 
go  up  in  her,  and  follow  the  Orders  they  fhall  re- 
ceive from  Capt.  Forrefi  or  Capt.  Watfon  \   but  to 
follow  the  Bomb-Ketch,  and  to  take  Capt.  Forreft*^ 
Orders  where  to  place  his  Ship. 
'    And  as  Capt.  Stevens,  in  the  other  Firefhip  of 
your  Divifion,  has  been  here  as  Lieutenant  of  the 
Sheernefsy  I  would  have  you  make  his  Signal  di- 
redlly ;  and  order  him  to  make  all  the  Sail  he  can 
in  dire<5Hy,  and  to  anchor  his  Firefhip,  as  foon  as 
he  gets  in,  on  the  Leeward  part  of  the  Channel, 
going  in  ;    and  to  hoift  his  Jack  at  his  M^in-top- 
mafl  Head,  to  fhew  he  is  there  to  buoy  the  Channel 
for  them ;    and  I  will  give  the  fame  Orders  to 
Capt.  Barnard,  of  my  Divifion,  to  anchor  with  his 
Firefhip  on  the  windward  Part  of  the  Channel, 
for  our  Flock's  going  in  between  them. 

And  as  foon  as  we  are  in,  I  defire  you  would 
make  the  general  Signal  for  the  refl  of  your  Cap- 
tains, and  give  all  the  Ships  of  the  Line  Orders 
immediately  to  fend  their  Barges  mann'd  and 
arm'd,  to  come  under  my  Stern,  and  go  under  the 
general  Command  of  Capt.  Watfon  i  fand  Captain 
Dennis  may  Command  thofe  of  your  Divifion,  if 
you  think  proper ;)  and  to  fend,  befides,  an  Eight- 
Oar*d  Boat  or  Yawl,  with  a  Mate  in  it,  to  repair 
diredly  on  board  the  Bomb- Ketch,  and  follow  the 

D  Orders 


t    22    ] 

Orders  of  Captain  Forreft,  for  towing  his  Flotilla 
where  he  fliall  dire6l  them. 

If  the  Uncertainty  of  the  Weather  had  not  pre- 
vented me,  I  intended  you  a  Vifit,  as  you  are  con- 
fined ;  and  fhall  do  myfejf  that  Pleafure  as  foon  as 
we  are  in  :  And  I  have  iffued  thefe  general  Orders, 
as  you  are  not  perfedlly  recovered,  which  I  heartily 
willi  you.     I  am, 

SIR, 

Boyne,  off  Walthenamy  YoUT  mofi  Obedient^ 

Ju/y  iS,  1741.  HumMe  Servant, 

E.  V. 

P.S.  I  have  fent  Orders  to  the  Superbe  for  cruiz- 
ing for  ten  Days  off  this  Harbour,  and  fent  the 
Montague  Ordtts  by  him  to  cruize  for  ten  Days  off 
St.  Jago  ;  fo,  if  he  be  near  you,  order  him  to  go 
to  the  Superbe  for  his  Orders. 


To  General  W^ntworth. 
S  I  A, 

I  Have  received  yours  this  Morning,  but  cannot 
fend  you  John  Drake,  as  you  defired ;  he  being 
gone  early  this  Morning,  with  my  Captain  and  the 
Boats,  to  reconnoitre,  and  advance  our  fmali  Vef- 
fels  as  far  as  they  can  go  in  their  Way  to  the  In- 
dian Town  of  Santa  Catalina  :  But  he  will  refturn 
with  my  Captain  this  Night,  and  fhall  be  ready  to 
attend  t)ie  Council  of  War  we  are  to  hold  to- 
morrow Morning,  as  you  agreed  on  lafl  Night  % 
and  as  you  have  his  Information  in  Writing,  I  ip- 
prehend  yoju  will  have  fufficient  Matter  for  your 
Council  of  War's  Information  this  Morning.  And 
I  fend  you  inclofed  the  Copy  of  the  Carpenter's 
Information,  as  you  defire ;  and  you  may  have  him 
perfonally  to-day,  if  you  defire  it :  But  I  have  not 

fent 


[23] 

fent  him  now,  as  he  does  not  pretend  to  anjr 
Knowledge  of  the  Road  by  Land. 

I  think  the  Informations  fo  plain  and  clear,  and 
the  Execution  fo  eafy,  if  it  be  but  fet  about  with 
Chearfulnefs  and  Good-will,  that  I  cannot  entertain 
the  leaft  Doubt  of  Succefs.  I  hope  we  fhall  be  all 
equally  animated  with  a  Zeal  to  difcharge  our  Duty 
to  his  Majefty  and  our  Country,  and  to  anfwer 
their  Expedlations  from  fo  expenfivc  an  Expedi- 
tion \  and  ^then  I  am  perfwaded  it  will  be  fuccefs* 
fill,  and  that  we  Ihairfoqn  be  Matters  of  the  Har- 
bour of  St.  Ja^o,  and  all  the  Eaft  End  of  this 
Ifland  ;  which,  in  my  Apprehenfion,  is  better 
fituated)  and  mofe  advantageous,  in  all  Views,  for 
our  Royal  Mailer  to  be  polTefTed  of,  than  th^ 
Weftern  Parts  of  it,  with  tht  Havanna.     '    "    "  ' 

I  hope  it  will  pleafc  God  we  fhall  avoid^^Iittmg 
on  the  Rock  of  Difcord,  the  only  Difficulty  I  ap- 
prehend, as  I  think,  if  this  be  but  heartily  fet 
about,  it  can  never  fail  of  Succefs.,   I  mu  ,, 

Boyne,  in  Walthenam  Har-  XoW  mofl  Ohdiettty       -"^'\ 

hour,  7«/j?  I  ^  1 74^  •  Humble  Servant,     "  * 

iiiY    mil'    I, J  ,11  I      I      .  I         I  I  if^ii'mi     II  i    II    I         b 

*      To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

AFTER  the  unanimous  Refolutions  of  our 
lafl  Council  of  War,  for  the  Forces  getting 
up  to  the  Village  of  Catalina  with  the  utmoft  Ex- 
pedition, and  ror  advancing  to  attempt  to  furprize 
and  take  the  Batteries  above  the  Morrt  Caftle,  if 
the  Approaches  to  them  are  found  practicable  for 
his  Majefty's  Forces  -,  that  every  thing  in  our 
Power  might  be  done  to  comply  with  the  principal 

D  2  ••>  •■''■•"'--  -View 


View  of  his  Majefty's  Inftrudions,  that  of  pofTef^ 
fing  ourfejves  of  the  Ifland  of  Cuba  j 

What  fell  from  you  yefterday  on  board  the 
Cumberland,  exprefTing  your  Diffidence  of  being 
able  to  proceed  further,  could  not  but  greatly  fur- 
prize  us,  and  give  us  great  Concern  ;  to  hear  from 
you,  how  much  Unwillingnefs  was  exprefled  by 
fome  of  your  Officers,  for  proceeding  on  this 
Expedition. 

And  we  cannot,  on  this  Occafion,  both  in  re- 
gard to  our  Duty  to  the  Crown  and  Friendfliip  to 
you,  but  feafonably  lay  before  you  the  fatal  Confe- 
quences,  that  may  refult  to  all  Officers  that  fhall 
fhew  a  Reludance  to  comply  with  his  .  Majefty's 
Inftrudions,  and  Ihall  by  their  Behaviour  and  Ex-; 
ample  encourage  others  to  do  fo ;  as  we  thihk,'  m 
the  military  Term,  this  approaches  too  near  to 
Mutiny. 

And  tho'  this  may  take  its  firft  Rife  in  the  pri- 
vate Paffions  of  fome  Officers,  who  had  rather 
return  to  Britain  than  continue  longer  in  Service 
in  a  Climate  not  agreeable  to  them  j^  yet  we  fear, 
the  not  giving  an  early  Check  to  "this  Temper 
among  fome  of  your  Officers,  may  draw  a  Refent- 
ment  on  you,  whofe  Duty,  it  may  be  judged,  was 
to  have  early  fupprcfled  it. 

We  cannot  but  mention  to  you,  that  Reports 
were  fpread  before  the  Fleet's  failing  irom  Jamaica, 
that  Refolutions  were  taken  againft  the  Army's 
landing  on  this  Ifland  ;  which  the  Difcourfes  of 
fome  of  your  Officers  fince,  have  given  but  too 
much  Grounds  to  fufpedt  there  might  be  fome 
Foundation  for-,  and  what  fell  from  you  yefterday 
gives  us  the  greater  Reafon  to  apprehend  it. 

And  as  Combinations  to  defeat  the  main  View 
of  his  Majefty's  Inftrudlions,  are  of  the  moft  cri- 
minal Nature,  we  cannot  but  hope  there  are  none 

fuch 


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fuch,  tho'  fuch  Grounds  are  given  to  fufpeft  it. 
But  as  fuch  might  afFed  the  Lives,  as  well  as  the 
Commiffions,  of  all  who  fhould  fall  into  them,  we 
cannot  but  give  it  you  as  our  Advice,  early  to 
iexert  yourfelf,  in  giving  all  poflible  Difcouragemcnl;. 
po  what  may  prove  fo  fatal  to  them. 
./We  think  the  Execution  of  all  propofed  an^ 
agreed  to  in  our  laft  Refolutions,  may  be  very 
cafily  effected,  if  it  be  but  heartily  fet  upon,  with 
the  fame  Chearfulnefs  and  Good-will  as  was  ex« 
preffed  in  the  unanimous  Refodution  of  our  faid 
laft  General  Council  of  War. 
'  And  as  we  cannot,  in  regard  to  the  Honour  of 
our  Royal  Mafter  and  the  Intercft  of  our  Country, 
but  think  it  our  Duty  to  advife  your  early  to  fup^' 
prefs  this  evil  Spirit  in  fome  of  your  Officers  :.  So 
we  hope  you  will  accept  this  Advice,  as  our  una- 
nimous Sentiments  of  Friendfhip  to  you,  as  well 
as  Regard  to  our  Duty  to  his  Majefly ;  as  we  feaf 
the  Effc6ts  of  this  Condu6t  would  principally  revert 
on  you ;  which  as  we  fhould  be  heartily  conceroed 
for,  fo  we  thought  this  feafonable  Advice  to  you,* 
to  be  on  your  Guard  againft  it,  the  befl  Inftance 
we  could  give  of  our  friendly  Concern  for  your 
Honour  and  Interefl. 

And  hoping  you  will  accept  it  as  fuch,  we  are, 

Cumherlandy  in  Cumberland  Your  mod  Obedient^ 
Harbour  (formerly  call'd  ^^^^/^  Ser<vant5, 

Walthenam)  on  the  South  r?    x r 

Side  of   Cuba,  Julyii,  ^'    VIRNOW, 

1741.  C.  Ogle  ;  \ 

'-" ^rm^ 

To  Lieutenant  Thomas  Stvrton. 

YO  U  are  hereby  required  and  directed,  to  take 
under  your  particular  Care  and  Conduft  John 

Drake, 


[  26  ] 

"Drake^  Manner  *,  and  as  he  is  the  only  Guide  we 
have  for  Ihewing  the  Forces  the  Road  from  where 
ou  are  to  St.  Jago^  through  the  Village  of  Cata- 
Tina^  you  are  to  take  particular  Care  for  his  Prefcr- 
vation,  and  not  to  cxpofe  him  to  the  Enemy's 
Fire,  as  far  as  it  can  pofTibly  be  avoided. 

And  as  it  is  but  too  apparent,  that  a  fhamef ul 
Backwardnefs  has  appeared  in  forne,  to  proceed 
with  that  Zeal  and  Chearfulnefs  they  ought  in  the 
Execution  of  his  Majefty's  Orders ;  it  cannot  but 
be  apprehended,  there  are  fome  might  even  b^ 
glad  our  Guide  Ihould  be  deftroyed,  to  give  them 
the  Colour  of  wanting  a  Guide  to  condud  them  j 
though,  if  they  are  once  fliewed  the  Road  they 
are  to  proceed  in,  even  that  :wouJ^  be  but  a 
Pretence. 

But  that  they  may  not  have  that,  I  have  put 
the  faid  John  Drake,  Mariner,  under  your  particular 
Care  and  Conduft  -,  and  you  are  to  chook  out  ten 
Men  from  the  Brigantine  under  your  Command,  to 
ferve  under  you  as  a  Guard  for  the  faid  Guide  \ 
and  in  your  Abfence,  to  leave  the  Brigantine  under 
the  Care  and  Command  of  Lieu,tenant  Lowtber^ 
for  giurding  that  Poft,  and  fcouring  the  Country 
round  with  her  Guns ;  diredling  him  to  obey  the 
Orders  of  his  fuperior  Officers,  Capt.  Forrefi  being 
appointed  to  command  the  whole  Flotilla,  and 
Captain  Tompfon  to  command  under  him  at  the 
upper  Barcadier. 

,  And  as  I  have  ordered  Capt.  Watfon  to  acquaint 
the  General  to-day  with  the  Orders  you  have  for 
taking  the  Guide  under  your  Care  and  Proteftion, 
and  you  having  my  Orders  to  obey  General  Went- 
worth*s  Orders,  in  attending  with  him,  to  dire6t 
them  in  the  Road  they  have  to  march  towards  the 
Village  of  Catalina^  and  afterwards  to  St.Jago,  <x 
the  Batteries  above  the  Mono  Caftle  (for  which  I 

wUl 


t*7l 

"Win  fend  you  ahaddrtibharGmde,  after  tfieir  Ifav- 
ing  advanced  bcyx)nd  the  Village  of  Catalina  :) 
You  are,  accordingly,  hereby  required  and  direded, 
whenever  GtrvtraXWmtworth  fhall  defire  or  dire(^ 
you  to  fhew  any  Part  of  their  Forces  the  Way 
they  are  to  pafs  to  the  faid  Village  of  Catalina^  or 
'%x.Jago  and  the  Batteries,  to  attend  with  yoUr 
Party  and  the  Gu^de,  ^s  aforefaid,  to  direft  them 
in  the  Way ;  and  never  to  let  the  faid  Guide  be 
from  under  your  Care  and  Cuftody.  For,^r.  ■> 
Given  on  board  the  Boyne  in  Cumberland  Har- 
bour (formerly  called  Walthenam)  on  the  South 
Side  of  C«^^,  this  24th  of  7«/y,  1741. 

•■■  •:  rjiT.:.  ?  .         E..V. 

Ij"!'"''  im^.i-i  '"..I    'I!    !-"!   *i"f^"ii  f*>Wfrt 

^^f^   1    R,       ■■■•-.-      r,    ..     t-f-       -..H,-'!      ,.',    •        ■!    fK;   '-i   t 

1  Heartily  congratulate  you  on  the  Succefs  of  your 
firft  advanced  Party,  by  the  Enemy's  flying  be- 
fore them  without  fo  much  as  exchanging  a  Shoe 
•with  them  -,  which  was  what  I  always  expefted. 
And  I  am  fure  you  will  find,  that  Delay  will  be 
•the  moft  dangerous  Enemy  you  have  to  deal  with» 
as  that  will  ;giv'e  the  Enemy  Time  to  be  pfeparing 
againfl  you  ♦,  ^herdas  their  being  attacked  where 
'they  did  not'  expedt  it,  leaves  them  entirely  open 
'and  <lefencelefs  for  the  prefent.  I  hope  you  will 
find  the  Village  to  afford  ready-built  Houfes  fuf* 
ficient  to  fhelter  the  Army,  and  fave  them  the 
Trouble  of  building  Hutts ;  and  I  apprehend  you 
may  eafily  make  that  Village  your  general  Maga- 
zine for  your  Provifions ;  and  they  will  have  the 
Mortification  to  find,  that  all  their  pafl  Labours 
were  loft,  in  fortifying  the  fore  Door,  when  they 
■had  left  the  back  Door  open  and  defencelefs. 

I  con- 


[28] 

I  congratulate  you  likewife  on  Captain  Durei^s 
being  arrived,  with  all  your  Surgeons  and  Medicine- 
Cheits,  and  having  brought  the  News  that  Mr. 
Wallace  is  coming  up  with  the  Deptford  and  Mtnay 
and  all  the  People  and  Stores  that  were  faved  out 
of  the  Ship  j  Captain  Davers  having,  according  to 
my  Orders,  fent  a  VelTel  to  Movant  Keys,  to  lave 
^hat  was  to  be  faved  of  that  Wreck. 

I  have  ordered  Capt.  Forrejl  to  get  my  Brig  Ten- 
der and  Bilander  as  high  up  as  there  is  Water  for 
them,  and  to  get  my  Sloop  cleaned  for  carrying 
our  Difpatches  to  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Newcajile^ 
as  it  is  abfolutely  neceflary  his  Majefty  fhould  be 
informed  as  early  as  pofTible  of  the  Refolution  of 
our  laft  general  Council  of  War,  for  giving  fuch 
further  Orders  as  his  Majefly  may  judge  necelTary 
on  the  Occafion.  And  as  Ihe  will  foon  be  ready, 
and  will  be  the  moft  expeditious  of  any  I  can  fend, 
I  muft  beg  the  Favour  that  you  would  get  your 
Letters  ready  to  go  by  her  as  foon  as  pofTible. 
I  intend  being  up  to-morrow,  when  we  may  fix 
the  Day  for  her  failing. 

And  as  foon  as  Captain  Allen  arrives,  whom  I 
expedt  every  Day,  I  will  get  him  ready  for  going 
away  with  your  general  Letters  to  the  Governors 
of  the  Northern  Colonies,  purfuant  to  the  Refolu- 
tion of  the  laft  general  Council  of  War, 

And  heartily  wifhing  you  much  Honour,  and 
his  Majefty  fuitable  Succefs  from  this  Expedition, 
I  am, 

SIR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  ToUT  mojl  Obedient, 

Harbour.  Cuba,  HumbU  Servant,      • 

July  26.  1741.  ^    y^ 


'To 


[  29  ] 
^0  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

IT  was  with  great  rleafur^  J  ftceived  yours  laft 
Night,  with  the  agreeable  Account  of  your 
advanced  Party  having  proceeded  lo  fuccefstully, 
and  having  got  good  Quarters  at  Don  John 
Cavalier  OS,  in  the  midil  of  a  fertile  Country.  I 
moft  heartily  congratulate  you  on  fo  fuccefsful  a 
Beginning  •,  and  think  Major  Dunjler  has  adted 
very  prudently,  in  advancing  no  further  till  your 
fuftaining  Party  joined  him,  as  his  firft  Party  was 
of  but  two  hundred  ;  and  hope,  on  their  joining 
him,  you  will  foon  have  Advice  of  his  reaching 
the  Village,  where,  I  apprehend,  he  cannot  be  too 
foon  fupported  with  greater  Numbers ;  and  hope 
he  will  meet  there  Mules  and  Horfes,  to  facilitate 
the  getting  all  neccffary  Provifions  after  them  with 
all  poflible  Expedition. 

And  I  believe.  Sir,  you  will  think  it  proper 
to  be  difperfing  your  Manifefto  from  thence,  to 
try  what  Effed  it  may  have  in  drawing  fome  of 
the  Inhabitants  in  to  fubmit  themfelves  to  his 
Majefty*s  Government  j  but  I  believe  the  moft 
efFedual  Argument  will  be  civil  Ufage. 

As  they  met  the  Boats  Sails  in  their  Way,  I 
think  it  is  very  apparent  they  proceeded  in  the 
right  Road  the  Enemy  retired  by. 

Heartily  wi filing  you  profperous  Succefs,  and 
much  Honour  from  this  Expedition,  I  am, 
SIR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  2'our  mojl  Obedient^ 

Harbour,  July  28,  ^^^^/^  Servant, 

»74'.  E.  V. 

p.  S.  With  your  next  Letters  to  Major  Dunjler, 

be  pleafed  to  forward  mine  to  Lieutenant  Sturton, 

and  to   dired  my  Men  with  him  having  their 

Share  in  all  Supplies  of  Provifions. 

£  2« 


,        [  3°  ] 

To  Lieut.  Tho.  Sturton,  of  the  Boyne. 
SIR, 

I  Have  received  yours  of  the  27th  with  much. 
Pleafure,  and  was  very  glad  to  hear  you  had 
met  with  fuch  good  Quarters  and  fome  neceflary 
Refrefhments  at  Don  John  Cavalkros  ;  and  think 
your  meeting  the  Boats  Sails  in  your  Way,  a  good 
Evidence  that  you  are  in  the  right  Road  to  the 
Village  5  and  think  Major  Dunjier  has  ^6ted  very 
prudently,  in  refolving  not  to  advance  further  till 
the  fuftaining  Party  joined  you. 

And  as  the  next  Supply  of  Provifions  comes 
from  your  Command  of  my  Brigantine,  you  will 
have  a  good  Title  to  your  Share  of  it ;  and  hope 
in  the  Village  you  will  meet  with  Mules  and 
Horfes,  to  facilitate  fending  the  Supplies  to  you 
there. 

You  cannot  lay  a  greater  Obligation  on  me, 
than  by  a  particular  Care  of  your  Guide.  And 
pray,  on  all  Occafions,  encourage  a  humane  Treat- 
ment of  the  Inhabitants,  to  engage  them  to  remain 
quietly  in  their  Houfes,  and  fubmit  to  his  Majefly's 
Government;  and  I  hope  the  Major  has  the 
GeneraPs  Manifeftos  to  difperfe  on  his  Arrival  at 
the  Village. 

With  a  firm  Confidence  in  your  prudent  Con- 
duft,  I  am, 

B&vne,  in  Cumberland Har-  nr^    ^  i  .    ii    o 

hour,  July  28.  1 741,        Tour  humble  Servant 

in  the  Morning.  E.   V. 


<■  To  General  Wentworth. 

S  I  R, 

F  T  E  R  heartily  congratulating  you  on  the 
^  happy  Change  I  hear  of,  in  an  univerlal  Satif- 
fadion   exprefTed  by  all  ypuf  Officers  and  Men, 

from 


A" 


f  3'  ] 

from  the  pleafing  Frofpe<5t  of  Succefs  in  this  Expe- 
dition -,  I  fend  this  to  acquaint  you,  your  Army 
Surgeons  and  Medicine-Chefts  will  all  be  to-day 
on  board  one  of  the  Tranfports  in  the  River,  as 
you  defire. 

And  as  I  would  difpatch  my  Sloop  away  as  foon 
as  poffible,  I  have  ordered  my  Officer,  who  brings 
you  this  Letter,  to  receive  yours  that  are  to  go  by 
her,  if  they  are  ready. 

And  as  I  propofe  to  difpatch  a  Firelhip  to  Ja- 
maica^  for  a  Supply  of  Provifions  and  Stores  being 
fent  me,  as  foon  "as  I  receive  my  Letters  from 
thence  by  the  Tork^  whom  I  daily  expeft  here  ;  I 
defire  you  would  likewife  fend  me  your  Letters  for 
Jamaica  as  foon  as  you  can,  as  I  hear  you  foon 
defign  to  be  advancing  yourfelf,  which  I  am  pleafed 
to  hear. 

And  if  you  want  any  Supply  of  Provifions  from 
thence,  it  would  be  proper  to  order  fome  of  t«he 
beft  failing  Tranfports  to  be  entirely  cleared  for 
their  going  to  Jamaica  to  fetch  it ;  for  which  they 
fhall  have  a  proper  Convoy,  whenever  you  defire 
it. 

I  was  pleafed  to  hear  you  had  got  a  further 
Supply  of  Horfes  for  accommodating  your  Officers ; 
and,  with  my  beft  Wifhes  for  a  flowing  Series  of 
good  Succefs  to  his  Majefty*s  Arms  under  your 
Condu(fl,   I  am, 

S  1  R, 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  U^t-  Tour  mofi  Obedient y 

hour,  July  29,1741.  ^^^^^^/^  Sei-vant, 

E.  V. 

E  2  To 


[  32  ] 

^0  his  Grace  the  Duke  oft^******. 

My  Lord  Duke, 

MY  laft  to  your  Grace  was  of  the  i8th  of  June^ 
from  Port  Royal  Harbour,  by  Commodore 
Lejiocky  whom  we  had  the  good  Fortune  to  get 
fafe  into  the  Sea,  with  all  the  Remainder  of  his 
Squadron  (except  one  of  the  Bomb-Ketches,  that, 
having  been  to  careen,  could  not  be  got  ready  fo 
foon)  on  the  20th  of  June ;  a  good  Part  of  them 
being  got  out  the  Day  before.  And  he  being  to 
collect  his  Fleet  together  at  Blewfields,  to  compleat 
their  Watering  there,  I  got  the  Terrible  Bomb- 
Ketch  to  Sea  the  24th,  and  heard  fince,  that  fhe 
joined  him  before  his  failing  from  Blewfields,  on  the 
26th  oi  June. 

Having  got  all  my  Ships  in  readinefs  for  the 
Sea  that  I  propofed  for  the  prefent  Expedition,  I 
thought  it  neceffary  to  advife  Mr.  Wentworth  of  it 
by  Letter  of  the  25th  of  June,  which  I  fend  your 
Grace  inclofed  a  Copy  of,  and  likewife  of  my  Or- 
ders to  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  of  the  fame  Date.  And 
the  General  fending  me  word  by  Mr.  Wallace,  the 
Agent  of  theTranfports,  that  about  fixteen  of  the 
Tranfports  would  be  ready  to  fail  on  the  28th,  I 
ordered  him  to  go  and  advife  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  of 
it,  who  would  take  Care  to  detach  fome  Ships  of 
his  Divifion  out  with  them  -,  for  our  dangerous 
Channel  made  it  a  requifite  Difpofition,  that  we 
fhould  get  to  Sea  by  Detachments.  On  the  26th 
I  detached  Capt.  Rentone  to  Sea  in  the  Rippon,  for 
reconnoitring  before  us,  as  I  mentioned  my  Inten- 
sion of  doing  in  my  Letter  to  Mr.  Wentworth  of 
the  25th. 

The  Superhe  and  Kent  failed  on  the  28th  with 
fuch  Tranfports  as  were  then  ready  to  fail  with 
them,  which  were  but  {^vtw  Sail. 

And 


[33] 

The  Montague  and  Princefs  Louifa  failed  the  next 
Day  (the  29th)  and  with  them  failtd  about  nine- 
teen Sail. 

And  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle,  with  the  reft  of  his  Divi- 
sion, put  to  Sea  the  next  Day,  and  about  eight 
Sail  more  5  and  the  fame  Day  I  advifed  the  Ge- 
neral of  my  Intentions  of  faihng  the  next  Day ; 
and  I  fend  your  Grace  inclofed  a  Copy  of  my  Letter 
to  him  of  the  30th  of  Juney  with  his  Anfwer. 

And  the  fame  Day  came  into  Port  Royal  Har- 
bour the  Seahorfe^  Captain  Allen^  that  had  been 
cruizing  off  St.  Jago,  with  a  Return  to  my  Letter 
fent  by  him  to  the  Governor  there,  propofing  an 
Exchange  of  Prifoners,  and  with  fixty-four  Englijh 
Prifoners,  among  which  was  Mr.  Cock,  the  South- 
Sea  Company's  Fa6lor  there.  The  good  Succefs 
of  this  Attempt,  that  I  made  to  procure  the  beft 
Intelligence  I  could  from  thofe  Parts,  at  fo  feafon- 
able  a  Time,  makes  it  neceflary  I  fhould  now  in- 
clofe  to  your  Grace  a  Copy  of  the  Orders  I  fent 
Captain  Allen  out  with,  and  a  Copy  of  my  Letter 
to  the  Governor  of  St.  Jago,  with  the  Spanijh  Go- 
vernor's Anfwer  j  and  1  fend  you  likewife  inclofed 
a  Copy  of  the  Jew*s  Journal,  whom  I  fent  as  my 
Spanijh  Interpreter,  to  carry  the  Letter  to  the  Go- 
vernor, and  of  another  Piece  of  Intelligence  Capt. 
Allen  brought  me,  being  Advices  he  had  received 
by  Mr.  Cock.  I  am  in  Hopes  that  the  Spani/h  Men 
of  War  therein  mentioned,  may,  with  their  Trea- 
fure,  either  fall  in  the  Way  of  Captain  lOiowles,  or 
Mr,  Leftock :  And  I  could  rather  hope  the  latter  ; 
for  as  our  Ships  muft  expedl  to  be  well  Ihattered 
in  fuch  a  Rencounter,  the  others  would  be  far 
diftant  from  any  Relief,  and  muft  get  thro*  the 
Gulph  as  well  as  they  could,  as  they  would  be  in 
no  Condition  to  ply  up  to  come  hither. 

On 


[  34] 
On  the  firft  Day  of  this  Month  of  July^  I  thank 
God,  I  got  fafe  to  Sea  myl'elf,  and  General  Weiitivorth 
with  me  in  the  Grafton^  with  the  reft  of  my  Divi- 
fion  under  Orders  for  failing  with  me;  except  the 
other  Bomb-Ketch,  which  I  have  likewife  got  ca- 
reened, and  by  Hiifting  a  good  deal  of  Plank  in  her 
Bottom,  have,  I  hope,  got  her  in  a  Condition  to 
ferve  in  this  Expedition ;  and  (lie  came  out  and 
joined  me  the  2d  of  July^  and  alfo  the  Ordnance 
Storefhips,  that  being  a  Branch  in  which  there 
has  been  the  moft  Dilatorinefs  and  Negligence 
throughout  our  whole  Expedition. 

Not  having  Time  or  Leifure  for  examining  our 
releafed  Englijh  Prifoners,  that  were  brought  into 
the  Harbour  but  the  Evening  before  I  failed,  I 
take  them  all  to  Sea  with  us,  for  cxprefling  their 
Gratitude  to  his  Majefty,  to  whom  they  owe  their 
prelent  Releafement,  by  doing  what  may  be  in  their 
Power  to  favour  the  Succefs  of  this  Expedition. 
But  Mr.  Cock  I  examined  myfelf,  with  the  General, 
before  our  failing;  and  not  finding  he  could  be 
materially  ferviceable  to  us,  I  left  him  behind. 

By  the  Jew*^  Narrative  of  what  the  Governor 
told  him,  if  it  be  true,  our  firft  Place  of  general 
Rendezvous  in  Donna  Maria  Bay  is  luckily  very 
well  chofen,  both  for  our  having  the  earlieft  Ad- 
vice at  it,  and  being  at  hand  to  make  the  beft  Ufe 
of  it ;  which  was  one  View  I  had  in  it,  as  well  as 
being  affured  of  being  well  to  windward  of  our 
Port  before  we  ftretchM  over  for  it ;  as  falling  to 
Leeward  of  our  Port,  might,  by  a  Lee  Current, 
have  defeated  our  whole  Expedition,  as  well  as 
given  the  Enemy  an  unnecefTary  Alarm  to  prepare 
for  us. 

Some  Ships  I  have  been  oblig'd  to  leave  behind 
through  Crazinefs,  that  muft  take  up  Time  to  re- 
pair ;  fome  through Sicknefs  \  andothers,  to  borrow 

their 


0  35  ]1 
their  Men,  to  compleat  for  Semce  the  Ships  F 
carry  out  with  me  :  And  I  have  left  Capt.  Da'Oef's^ 
in  the  Suffolky  a -good  Officer,  to  command   in  iny^ 
Abfence,  under  the  Orders  I  fend  your  Grace  in« 
clofed  a  Copy  of. 

And  for  being  ready  to  avail  myfeif  of-any  chance 
Opportunity  for  writing  to  your; Grace,  I  begin  my 
Letter  upon  my  firfl:  coming  to  Sea,  where  I  havtf- 
moft  Leifure  for  it ;  for  though  that  be  riot  the- 
mofl  liable  Element,  I  may  fay  atprefenc,   it-h- 
there  that  I  have  moflRefl:. 

On  the  nth  of  July  I' was  joined  by  Capt.  Bro- 
derick  in  the  Shorebam ;  and  L  fend  your  Grace  irt^^- 
clofed  a  Copy  of  his; Letter  tome,  informing  riit^^ 
of  his  Proceedings  and  Remarks  at  Carthagenay''^ 
and  I  fend  you  likewife  inclofed  Copies  of  the  Vfid^^ 
fcveral  Letters  he  brought  me  from  ^his  Excellency ' 
Don  Sibafiian  de  EJIava^xbe  Spanifi'Viccroy,  and  of 
one  from  my  Brother  Admiral,  Don  Blafs  de  Lezo. 
On  the  1 2th  I  was: joined  by  the  Tilbury,  Capt. 
Dent^  from  Leogane^  off  the  NavaJJa  :  And  I  fend 
your  Grace  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  Letter  he  brought 
me  from  his  Excellency  M.  Larnage,  by  which  I 
was  forry  to  karn  that  Captain  Draper,  in  the  Wolf 
Sloop,   was  certainly  Ship wreck*a  on  the  Caicos 
Bank ;  but  I  cannot  yet  learn  what  became  of  the 
Captain  and  the  reit  lof  the  Men,    and  fo  am  -yet 
in  fome  Hopes  he  found  Means  to  get  home  fafe  '• 
to  your  Grace,  with  my  Letters  of  the  24th  of- 
February  lafb.     And  having  a  verbal  Meflage,  by 
Captain  Dent,  from  M,  Larnoge,  (of  his  having  an 
Inclination  to  fend  us  fome  Deferrers,  but  that  his 
Humanity  would  not  allow  his  delivering  them  up 
with6ut  AlTurancc  of  their  Pardon)  giving  aHandfe  " 
for  it,  I  have  difpatched  Capt.  Allen  thither  again, 
with  the  Letter  I  fend*  you  a  Copy  of  inclofed,  to 
try  to  get  thofe  Deferters,  and  to  keep  an  Eye  on 

what 


[36] 

what  may  be  pafling  in  thofe  Parts ;  where,  youi* 
Grace  will  obferve,  they  talk  in  a  pacifick  Stile, 
tho*  the  Governor  of  St.  J  ago  told  the  Jew^  he 
had  Advice  from  thence  that  they  had  declared 
War  with  us. 

;  Captain  Allen  joined  me  from  Port  Royal  the 
13th,  which  Place  he  left  the  8th  of  July\  but 
there  were  then  no  Advices  from  England  fince  our 
failing,  tho*  my  laft  from  your  Grace  was  of  the  28th 
of  February  laft. 

I  fend  you  likewife  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  In- 
formation of  John  Drake,  Mariner,  relating  to  the 
Roads  between  Walthenam  and  St.  J  ago  -,    and  I 
have  other  material  Informations,  that  fully  per- 
fwade  me  of  the  eafy  Pradicability  of  fucceeding 
in  an  Attempt  for  being  Matters  of  St.  Jago,  and 
of  the  Eaft  End  of  this  Ifland,  if  it  be  but  entered 
on  with  Chearfulnels  and  Good- will,  which  I  will  a 
take  Care  fhall  not  be  wanting  on  my  Part.     And  ' 
in  Walthenam  I  fhall  have  his  Majefty*s  Ships  and 
Tranfports  in  a  fafer  Harbour,  in  cafe  of  a  Hurri-^-^ 
cane,  than  if  we  were  caught  in  one  in  Port  Royal '[ 
Harbour,  as  we  are  now  coming  to  the  Hurricane 
Seafon  of  the  Year ;  and  I  fhall  even  be  more  in 
the  Way  of  fecuring  our  Trade  from  the  Enemy's 
Privateers.     And,  I  thank  God,   I  have  not  yet 
heard  of  their  having  taken  fo  much  as  one  Brittjh 
Ship  in  my  Diftri6ts,  or  any  of  the  Coafting  Trade 
of  the  Ifland,  fmce  my  being  in  Command  here. 

My  Informations  in  regard  to  all  the  new 
Works  they  have  been  making  at  the  Morro 
Caftle,  and  to  guard  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour, 
I  have  from  a  Carpenter,  who  has  been  kept  at  - 
work  amongft  them ;  fo  that  I  think  all  my  In-  ■'■ 
telligcnce  very  well  founded.  And  I  believe  the 
Court  of  Spain  will  find  their  Remittances  to  come 
vaftly  fhort  of  their  Expectations,  from  the  Ap- 
plications 


[  37  ] 

plications  of  their  Treafure  to  fupport  the  Expencc 
of  the  numerous  Works  they  have  been  ere<5ting 
in  different  Parts,  and  will  have  to  eretft,  and  to 
fubfift  the  Numbers  of  Militia  drawn  together  irx 
many  Parts  •,  befides  the  Scarcity  of  Proyifions,  from  . 
their  thus  draining  the  Country  of  thofe  that  fliould 
carry  on  the  Culture  of  their  Land,  for  raifing 
Provifions  for  their  Subliftance. 

I  fend  your  Grace  likewife  inclofed  a  Letter  I 
received  in  the  Vice  Roy*s  Packet  jfrom  Carthagena^ 
from  a  Spanijh  Gentleman  who  was  formerly  Pri-  ' 
foner  with. us  (as  he  mentions)  and  coming  Paffen- 
ger  in  a  Dutch  Ship  from  Curafao,  was,  as  he  fays, 
taken,  by  two  Privateers,  with  your  Grace's  PafP 
port }  which  thofe  lawlefs  Libertines  would  pay  no 
Regard  to,  but  obliged  him  and  his  Comrade  to 
ranlom  themfelves  for  a  Thoufand  Pieces  of  Eight. 
And  as  they  are  out  of  my  reach  to  call  them  to 
an  Account,  I  thought  it  proper  to  fend  this  Letter 
to  your  Grace,  and  one  of  their  Dutch  Paffports ; 
and  in  the  Duplicate  of  it  (hall  come  the  Captains 
of  the  Privateers  Receipt  to  the  Dutch  Captain  for 
the  thoufand  Dollars ;  to  which  they  have  figned 
their  Names,  William  Richardfon^  and  James  Love  i 
and  this  Letter  calls  their  Sloops  the  yf«»^,  and  the 
Royal  Anne.  ' 

I  am  glad  I  can  acquaint  your  Grace  that  I  hap- 
pily got  into  this  Harbour  of  IValthenam  on  the 
1 8th  of  July^  with  forty-one  Sail  of  Tranfports 
and  Storefhips,  and  with  his  Majefly's  Ships  and 
Tenders,  fixty-one  Sail  in  all ;  and  was  pleafed  to 
find  we  were  poflefs'd  of  the  fineft  Harbour  in  the 
fFeJi' Indies^  where  there  is  Room  for  all  the  Ship- 
ping in  the  Thames^  and  where  we  are  very  fecyrc 
even  againft  a  Hurricane  ;  and  as  it  deferves  fomc 
Diftind:ion,  I  have  honoured  it  with  the  Name  of  > 
Cumberland  Harbour,  from  one  of  his  Royal  \ 
F  t^ighncfs       I 


,.    ^38.3 

Highnefs  the  ibiike^s  Titles,  who  has  given  us  the 
pleafing  Hopes  of  ferving  at  Sea  under  the  Com- 
mand of  a  Prince  of  the  Blood  Royal. 

As  I  was  poflefs'd  of  a  good  Pilot  for  the  Har- 
bour, I  loft  no  Time  in  making  the  beft  Ufe  of 
him,  having  detach'd  before  me  Captain  Forrejl 
ifi  the  Bomb-Ketch,  one  of  my  Firefhips,  my  Bri-^ 
gantine  and  Sloop  Tenders,  and  the  Bomb  Tender, 
putting  this  Flotilla  under  Captain  Forreji's  Orders, 
who  enter'd  the  Lagoon  going  up  to  the  Salinas, 
with  Part  of  them,  that  Evening.  And  by  Day- 
break the  next  Morning,  I  difpatch*d  all  the  Barges, 
mann'd  and  arm*d,  under  the  Command  of  Capt. 
Wat  [on  (my  Captaiin)  and  order'd  all  the  Yawls  to 
follow,  to  help  to  tow  the  Flotilla  as  high  up  as  it 
was  navigable  for  them ;  and  he  return'd  the  19th 
at  Night,  after  having  pofted  the  Sloop  as  high 
up  as  the  upper  Salinas,  and  the  Bomb-Ketch  an<t 
my  Brig  Tender  as  high  as  the  lower  Salinas,  juft 
above  which  was  a  Bar,  on  entering  the  Frelh- 
Water  River,  on  which  was  not  more  than  nine 
Feet  Water. 

And  Capt.  Watfon  having  advanced  f©me  Miles 
higher  up  the  Frelh- Water  River  with  his  Boats, 
above  the  upper  Barcadter,  he  landed  and  march*d 
up  a  Hill,  where  he  had  a  Profped:  of  a  fine  openr 
Country  for  feven  Leagues  (as  he  judg'd  \)  and  faw 
a  Houfe  that  the  Guide  faid  was  very  near  the 
Village  of  Catalina,  mention'd  in  his  Information, 
which  he  faid  lay  in  a  little  Valley ;  and  he  having 
found  all  he  view'd  exactly  to  agree  with  the  faid 
Information ;  I  fummon'd  a  General  Council  of 
War  next  Morning  {July  the  20th  -,)  and  I  fend  ' 
your  Grace  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  unanimous  Re- 
folution  of  faid  General  Counciil  of  War.     And 
there  being  mention'd  in  it  (befides  the  Information 
of  John  Drake,  Mariner,  in  regard  to  the  Pra(^i- 

cablenefs 


[  39  J 

cablenefs  of  the  Road)  the  Information  of  Hefoy 
Cavelier,  Carpenter,  in  regard  to  the  Facility  of 
being  Mafters  of  the  upper  Batteries  guarding  the 
Harbour  of  St.  Jago  -,  I  have  likewife  fent  your 
Grace  inclofed  Copies  of  that,  and  of  Capt.  Ren- 
tone's  Report,  mentioned  alfo  in  our  faid  general 
kefolution ;  and  the  Copy  of  a  Letter  that  I  wrote 
to  General  Wentworth  on  the  19th  oijuly^  in  An- 
fwer  to  one  defu-ing  I  wpul4  fend  John  Drake  ^o 

By  taking  every  Thing  out  oF^nij^^rfg  rertder 
and  Bomb  Tender,  they  have  hove  them  both  over 
the  Bar,  and  then  taken  all  in  again,  and  got  them 
up  to  the  upper  SalinaSy  to  the  Sloop  :  So  there  is 
a  great  Command  of  Fire  from  their  Guns,  to 
fcour  the  Country  round  them,  and  fecure  a  fafe 
landing  to  the  Army,  without  fo  much  a5  the  Ap^ 
prehenfion  of  any  Moleflation. 

We  had  one  Boy  wounded  by  a  Shot  from  fomc 
fkulking  Spaniards  the  firll  Day,  on  their  marching 
to  the  Top  of  the  Hill ;  and  one  Man  kill'd,  and 
one  wounded  by  them  the  next  Day ;  but  v/e  have 
neither  fecn  nor  heard  any  thing  of  them  fince. 

On  the  2ift  the  fForcefier  ca.mQ  in  here  with  one 
of  our  miffing  Tranfports.  On  the  2  2d  the  Tilbury 
came  in  here,  and  brought  with  her  five  Tranfports 
and  one  Storefhip,  which  fhe  pick*d  up  otF  Cape 
Dona  Maria,  where  I  fent  her  in  queft  of  them,  and 
we  have  now  forty -nine  Tranfports  and  Storefliips  j 
and  all  but  one  of  them,  that  drew  too  much 
Water,  are  got  up  within  the  Lagoon ;  and  thofe 
that  drew  leaft  Water  were  difpatch'd  in  firfl,  and 
many  of  them  are  got  as  high  up  as  juft  below 
Captain  Forrejl  in  the  Bomb-Ketch,  who  lies  at 
the  lower  Earcadier  ♦,  for  they  had  nothing  that 
could  be  lighten*d  to  get  over  the  Bar  of  the 
Frcfh- Water  River,  but  one  Schooner,  which  is 
F  2  got 


[40] 
gbt  to  my  Brig  Tender,  Bomb  Tender  and  Sloop,' 
that  are  polled  at  the  upper  Barcadier. 

On  the  24th  arriv'd  here  the  Strombolo  Firelhip, 
/  Captain  Dure II,  whom  I  had  difpatch*d  away  from 
the  NavaJ/a  for  Jamaica^  for  fetching  up  to  us  the 
Dircftor  of  the  Army  Hofpital,  the  Army  Surgeons, 
and  their  Medicine-Chells.  On  having  an  Account 
brought  me  that  the  Lynn  Hofpital-Ship  was  ftill 
there,  and  knowing  (he  was  fuch  a  leewardly  Ship 
that  there  c(wld  be  no  Rehance  on  her  getting  to 
^vindward  at  all,  I  offer'd  the  General  a  Ship  to 
fetch  them,  which  he  accepted  of  3  and  fhe  has 
brought  up  twelve  of  the  Army  Surgeons  and 
Afllftants,  and  all  the  remainder  of  their  Medicine 
Chefts,  that  were  not  brought  up  by  their  Surgeon 
General,  who  came  up  to  us  by  the  Seahorfe, 
Captain  Mien  •,  and  Mr.  Cathcart,  the  Dire(5bor  of 
their  Hoipital,  told  Captain  Durell  he  llaid  behind 
to  purchafe  Neceflaries  for  the  Hofpital,  which  he 
foon  would  be  following  him  with.  He  brought 
"me  an  Account  of  what,  as  far  as  I  can  learn,  is 
the  only  mifllng  Tranfport,  which  is  the  Vere 
Pink ;  on  board  of  which  was  Mr.  Wallace^  the 
Agent  of  the  Tranfports,  to  whom  I  delivered 
Orders  at  Sea  on  the  7th  in  the  Evening,  for  his 
jfTuing  out  o\ir  fecond  Place  of  Rendezvous  to  the 
Transports,  being  then  four  Leagues  to  windward 
of  the  Eaft  End  of  the  Ifland  of  Jamaica  :  But  by 
what  I  can  judge,  they  contriv'd  to  get  Shipwreck*d 
that  very  Night  on  PorS  Morant  Keys  ;  which  muft 
have  been  through  the  CarelcfTnefs  of  the  Mafter, 
in  not  obferving  to  tack  when  I  made  my  Signal 
for  it,  at  two  in  the  Morning  on  the  8th,  And  con- 
fidering  how  little  Regard  they  all  paid  to  Signals, 
every  one  ranging  after  his  own  obftinate  Will,  I 
can  attribute  it  to  nothing  but  God's  good  Provi- 
dence, that  we  have  not  loft  more  of  them  ;   for 

the 


[  41  ] 

flie  greateft  Care  of  a  Commanding  Officer  will  be 
of  little  Avail  to  thofe  who  will  pay  fo  little  Re- 
gard to  Signals.  The  Lofs  is  the  more  felt  for 
the  Abfence  of  Mr.  Wallace^  who  is  a  very  ex- 
perienced diligent  Officer  in  his  Poft :  But  we  Ihall 
now  foon  have  him  with  us  by  the  Deptford^  or Mtm 
Firefhip,  which  he  has  fent  Word  he*  would  come 
by,  with  all  the  Men  and  Stores  that  were  faved; 
which  were  fetch'd  from  thence  by  a  Veflel  I  had 
fent  Orders  to  Capt.  Davers  to  fend  out  to  them, 
having  heard  by  my  Brig  Tender  that  fhe  had  feen 
fome  Shipwrecic'd  Men  on  thofe  Keys  •,  and  I  do 
not  hear  there  were  above  five  Men  drowned  on 
this  Occafion. 

The  Troops  have  been  landing  fince  their  get- 
ting in.  The  General  pitched  on  his  firft  Place 
for  Hutting  his  Troops,  right  againft  where  my 
Brig  Tender  was  polled ;  which,  finding  we  had 
Water  for  her,  I  have  got  two  Leagues  higher  up 
the  River  ;  and  the  Bilander  drawing  lefs  Water, 
we  have  got  her  a  Mile  higher  ;  But  the  General 
finding  the  firft  Place  pitch'd  upon  low,  and  that 
it  would  have  been  damp  with  the  Rains,  loon  re- 
folved  to  move  higher,  and  has  got  a  little  above  the 
Schooner,  that  was  the  Veffel  of  the  leaft  Draught 
of  Water  we  had. 

We  having  on  the  25th  fent  out  a  Detachment 
of  a  hundred  of  the  American  Troops  and  a  hun- 
dred Blacks,  I  ordered  Lieutenant  Sturton  from  my 
Ship,  with  ten  Men  from  my  Brig  Tender,  to  take 
the  Guide  under  his  Care,  and  to  accompany  them. 

And  on  the  26th  at  Night,  I  received  from  Ge- 
neral Wentwortb  an  Account  of  their  Succels  •,  the 
Enemy's  firft  advanced  Guaid  flying  before  them 
without  fo  much  as  exchanging  a  Shot  with  them, 
and  leaving  them  eleven  Horfcs,  fome  of  their 
Ammunition,   and  a  good  deal  of  jerkVl  Beef. 

Thefe 


[    42    ] 

Thefe  Horfes  were  a  feafonable  Supply  to  mount 
our  Officers.  They  took  likewife  three  Spanifii  Let-» 
ters,  from  the  Governor  of  St.  J  ago  to  the  Com- 
manding Officer  of  the  Militia  of  thefe  Parts  ; 
which  being  fo  exceedingly  weak  and  ridiculous, 
I  cannot  omit  fending  your  Grace  Copies  of  them, 
for  your  Amufement. 

On  the  27th  I  fct  out  from  the  Ship  by 
Day-break,  to  view  all  my  advanced  Guards  my 
felf,  and  give  all  the  neceflary  Orders  on  the  Spot, 
for  the  more  regular  landing  the  reft  of  the 
Troops,  and  fending  their  Supplies  of  Provifions 
and  Stores  after  them.  And  I  thought  it  the  moft 
beautiful  Profpeft  I  ever  faw,  to  row  five  Leagues 
up  a  navigable  River,  of  about  a  hundred  Yards 
wide  all  the  Way,  with  green  Trees  on  both  Sides 
appearing  like  a  green  Fence,  bordering  both  Sides 
of  the  River  for  the  moft  part;  for  from  the 
Mouth  of  the  River  to  where  my  Brig  Tender  lies, 
I  take  to  be  good  five  Leagues ;  the  Bilander  lies 
about  a  Mile  higher,  and  the  Schooner  half  a  Mile 
higher  than  her.  From  thence  I  rowed  in  my 
Boat  about  half  a  Mile  higher  than  the  upper  In- 
campment,  to  come  at  the  Foot  of  fome  Hills, 
which,  I  faw,  I  could  have  a  full  View  of  the 
Country  from  -,  and  then  landed,  with  my  Boat's 
Crew  for  my  Guard,  and  reconnoitred  the  Country 
from  the  Tops  of  thofe  Hills,  on  one  of  which  the 
General's  advanced  Guard  was  placed  that  Morn- 
ing -,  and  it  gave  me  great  Pleafure  to  have  fo  cx- 
tenfive  a  View,  over  what  appear'd  to  me  the  fineft 
Plains  I  had  ever  feen  in  the  Indies^  and  watered,  I 
think,  with  a  River  the  fartheft  navigable  for  Ships 
that  I  ever  heard  of  I  then  vifited  the  General  in 
his  prefent  Encampment,  which  is  an  open  rifing 
Ground,  by  the  Frefh- Water  River  Side,  and  as 
beautiful  a  Situation  for  a  Town  a^  this  Country 
?v  can. 


I  43  ] 

^n  afford,  with  a  fertile  Soil  behind  it.  I  walked 
through  a  Pen  for  catching  their  Cattle,  between 
the  Hills  and  their  Camp,  and  faw  feveral  Parcels 
of  Horfes  ranging  round  me,  which  I  hope  their 
Blacks  will  foon  find  Means  to  catch.  I  made  it 
dark  before  I  could  return,  it  being  two  Leagues 
from  where  I  ride  in  the  Line  of  Battle  with  my 
Capital  Ships,  for  Security  of  this  beautiful  and  fei 
cure  Harbour,  to  the  Mouth  of  the  River,  which 
is  jufl  on  the  Leeward  Entrance  into  this  Harbour. 
And  the  General  having  entitled  his  Camp 
George -Stadt,  I  have  honour'd  this  beau- 
tiful River  with  the  Name  of  her  Royal  High- 
nefs  the  Priiicefs  of  JVales,  calling  it  the  River 
Augusta. 

After  fo  agreeable  Profpefts  of  the  Day,  I  was 
pleafmgly  awak*d  at  one  in  the  Morning  on  the 
28  th,  with  a  Letter  from  the  General,  and  one 
from  my  Lieutenant,  of  the  27th>  from  the  ad- 
vanced Party,  with  an  Account  of  their  uninter- 
rupted Progrefs  till  their  Arrival  in  fuch  fertile 
Plains ;  and  I  fend  your  Grace  inclofed  a  -Copy 
of  my  Lette*-  from  Lieutenant  ^/wr/<7».        ..!  -^v: 

I  think  myfelf  pofted  here,  not  only  in  a  happy 
Security  againft  ail  Apprehenfiohs  of  Hurricanes^ 
b\it  in  the  befl  Situation  that  could  be  chofcn  for 
S^ufity  of  the  Trade  of  his  Majefty's  Subjedls, 
and  the  annoying  that  of  his  Majcfty's  Enemies : 
Which  I  (hall  endeavour  to  poft  my  Cruziers  to 
the  beft  Advantage  for,  and  for  having  early  Intel- 
ligence of  any  Motions  of  the  Enemy ;  who,  by 
our  Situation  here,  will  be  cut  off  from  any  Com- 
munication with  their  Neighbours  the  French^  from 
whence  they  receive  their  InteHigence  and  Supplies. 

And  thinking  it  now  high  Time  our  Royal 
Mailer  fhould  have  the  earliell  Information  of  our 
prefent  Situation,   I  have  got  my  Sloop  careen'd 

and 


[44] 
±nd  dean*d  in  the  River  Augujia,  arid  Capt.  Forrefi 
will  fbon  difpatch  her  down  to  me,  for  fend- 
ing my  Difpatches  to  your  Grace  by  her  (that  I 
think  will  bring  them  fooneft  to  your  Hands)  by  a 
Nephew  of  my  Wife's,  whom  I  fend  to  ride  Ex- 
prefs  with  them.  This  Sloop  was  a  fmall  Privateer 
commanded  by  one  Hall^  that  I  hired  into  the 
Crown's  Service  fo  long  ago  as  December  laft,  ha- 
ving a  View  in  it  to  get  into  my  Hands  the  ma- 
rooning Part  of  his  Crew,  that  I  knew  were  well 
acquainted  with  thefe  Parts ;  and  this  John  Drake, 
the  Guide,  was  one  of  them.  For  this  Affair  has 
been  long  in  my  Thoughts,  though  it  has  but  fo 
lately  broke  out  into  Execution,  and,  I  thank  God, 
a  fuccefsful  one ;  and  I  think  this  Spot  the  belt 
chofen  one  for  a  Briii/h  Settlement  of  any  in  this 
Ifland,  and  am  glad  to  find  the  Americans  begin 
to  look  on  it  as  the  Land  of  Promife  already. 

I  fend  your  Grace  likewife  inclofed  a  Copy  of 
my  Letter  to  the  General  of  the  26th,  to  advife 
him  to  have  his  Letters  ready  to  go  by  her,  and 
that  the  Seahorfe  fhould  foon  be  got  ready  for  carry-^ 
ing  his  Letters  to  the  Governors  of  the  Northern 
Colpnies. 

The  Boats  Sails,  mention'd  to  be  retaken  by 
our  advanced  Party  in  thofe  inland  Houfes,  were 
the  Sails  of  two  of  our  Longboats,  who,  on  the 
firft  of  our  advancing  up  the  River,  had,  without 
any  Officer  with  them,  or  Orders,  feil'd  Ibme 
Miles  above  my  advanced  Guards,  till  they  were 
fired  upon  thro'  the  Bufhes  fi-om  a  high  Bank, 
where  they  had  one  Man  kili'd  and  one  wounded ; 
upon  which,  they  put  alhore  upon  the  oppofite  Side 
of  the  River,  and  ran  down  to  my  Sloop  to  in- 
form them  of  it,  and  Captain  Dennis  march' d  up 
with  a  Party  of  Men  as  foon  as  he  had  Advice  of 
it ;   feut  being  ibme  Miles  above  him*^  they  had 

burnt 


145] 

fcurnt  the  j^oats,  and  carried  off  the  Sails,  long  be- 
fore he  could  get  up  thither  •,  but  all  that  Plunder 
of  theirs  is  now  retaken,  even  to  the  Longboat's 
Enfign,  mention'd  in  the  Governor  of  St.  Jago*i 
Letters. 

I  can  bring  a  twenty-gun  Ship  for  careening, 
with  Eafe,  clofe  to  the  Banks  of  the  River  -,   and 
I  think  I  have  found   a  convenient  Part  of  the 
Harbour,    that,  with    a  little  Wharfing,    I  fhall 
be  able  to  bring   a  fixty  or  a  feventy-gun  Ship 
to  careen  at  it  >    and  we  have  large  Timber  for 
Piles  growing  clofe  to  the  Water  Side,    at  the 
■River  I  water  my  Ships  at,   lying  two  or  three 
Leagues  a|>ove  where  I  lie  in  Line  of  Battle  with 
our  fix  Capital  Ships,  on  the  Weather  Side  of  the 
Harbour ;  where  we  cannot  be  furpriz*d,  being  the 
two  eighty-gun  Ships  that  Sir  Chaloner  and  I  have  our 
Flags  on  board  of,  and  the  four  feventy-gun  Ships, 
our  fcconds  •,  tor  all  the  reft  will  be  kept  out  a  crui- 
zing, or.  preparing  to  relieve  thofe  that  are  fo, 
and  on  any  Enemy's  coming,  may  place  themfelves 
in  the  Van  and  Rear  of  our  Line  •,  and  I  am  raifing 
a  little  Redoubt  to  keep  a  Guard  at,  to  cover  our 
Men  in  the  Watering  at  the  River  I  water  the 
Fleet  at,   which  is  four  or  five  Leagues  diftant 
from  the  Mouth  of  that  the  Army  is  landed  in, 
tho*  both  running  into  the  fame  Harbour. 
'  As  to  the  Sloop  Tender  my  Nephew  comes  in, 
the  Owners  of  her  living  in  Rhode  IJland,  and  the 
Hiring  and  Account  of  what  has  been  advanced 
being  kept  by  the  Storekeeper  at  Jamaica^  make 
it  neceffary  fhc  (hould  be  order*d  back  thither  9 
and  her  Crew  are  all  borne  as  part  of  the  Comple- 
ment of  this  Ship,  as  I  judg*d  that  the  moft  frugal 
Management  for  his  Majefty's  Service. 

I  live  in  hopes  it  cannot  be  long  now  before  I 

fliall  have  the  honour  of  hearing  from  you,  my 

G  laft 


[  46  1 

lafl  from  your  Grace  being  of  the  28th  of  Fehrudry, 
now  above  five  Months  ago. 

I  Ihall  always  carefully  ftudy  to  govern  myfclf, 
to  the  beft  of  my  Judgement^  for  our  Royal 
Mafter*s  Service  :  But  it  cannot  but  be  an  anxious 
thing  to  a  Commanding  Officer,  to  be  long  with- 
out knowing  whetlier  he  has  judg'd  rightly  of  the 
Tenour  of  his  Inftrudtions,  which  is  mygreateft 
Ambition,  and  Ihall  be  my  fludious  Care.  I  am. 
My  Lord  Duke^ 

Bcyne,  in  Cumberland     Xour  Grace* S  moft 

on  ihe  s'omb'sTdc  Okdient,  Humble  Servant, 

of   Qiha,  July  29,  E.   V. 

1741. 


To  General  Wentworth. 

SIR, 

I  Received  yours  laft  Night  by  Mr.  Littleton,  with 
the  agreeable  News  of  your  advanced  Party  ha- 
ving got  the  Village  without  meeting  any  Re- 
fiftance,  finding  it  entirely  abandoned  by  its  In- 
habitants. And  I  heartily  congratulate  you  on  the 
uninterrupted  Flow  of  Succefs  in  their  Proceedings, 
by  all  flying  before  them,  and  not  daring  fo  much 
as  to  make  the  leaft  Refiftance,  tho',  you  obferve, 
tlic  Narrownefs  of  the  Path  gave  them  the  beft 
Opportunity  for  it.  But  here  is  neither  a  Hannibal  to 
Command,  nor  Troops  of  any  Service  or  Experience 
to  obey ;  and  you  fee  by  Experience,  they  fly  like  a 
Flock  of  Sheep  before  you.  And,  I  take  it,  you  are 
now  got  pafl  the  moft  dangerous  Part  for  their  hav- 
ing any  Opportunities  of  Arabulhing  you ;  aDanger, 
in  my  Apprehenfion,  eafily  avoided,  by  fmall  ad- 
vanced Parties  of  your  Blacks,  ufed  to  brulhing 
the  Woods,  advancing  before  you  to  the  Right 

and 


t  47  i 
and  Left.  And,  I  remember,  my  Prifoner,  the 
Spanijh  Boy,  Izquerda^  whofe  Intelligence  Colonel 
Cochran  puts  his  Faith  in,  told  me,  before  I  fent 
him  to  you,  that  from  the  Village  to  the  Town  of 
St.  JcLgo^  it  was  all  Camino  Real;  which  it  ftands 
to  Reafon  it  Ihould,  as  that  was  the  Road  from 
thence  to  Barracao,  as  well  as  to  this  Place.  ^i  .^ 
And  though  the  Guide  has  not  carried  them  jn- 
the  diredb  Path  from  your  Camp,  it  is  very  plain 
he  had  a  very  good  general  Notion  of  it,  by  carry- 
ing them  firft  to  the  Houfes  where  the  Longboats 
Sails  were  lodged,  which  was,  to  be  fure,  the  direct 
Road  they  retired  :  By  the  Spanifh  Boy  Izquerda 
I  underftood,  the  fecond  Houfe  was  that  of  the 
Governor  of  St.  Jago*s  Don  ^ixoie.  Captain  Pedra 
Guerra  :  And  by  my  Officer's  Letter  I  find,  they 
are  gone  in  a  ftreight  Line  from  us,  as  he  has 
feen  our  Flag  on  the  fame  Point  of  the  Compais 
that  both  your  Camp  and  the  Village  are  from  us  j 
which  makes  it  manifeft  they  are  in  the  right  Way. 
And  the  three  Letters  you  fent  me,  from  the  Go- 
vernor of  St.  y ago  to  Capt.  Pedro  Guerra  (one  dated 
the  19th  of  July,  our  Stile,  another  the  2otli,  and 
the  third  the  2 2d)  make  it  clearly  manifefb,  that 
his  Meffengers  were  much  lefs  than  twenty-four 
Hours  in  bringing  his  Letters  from  St,  J^go  to 
your  Camp-,  for  we  came  in  but  the  i8th  in  the 
Evening,  and  the  19th  he  anfwers  the  Letter  he 
had  from  Capt,  Pedro  Guerra,  giving  him  an  Ac- 
count of  our  Arrival  i  and  the  next  Day  anfwers 
his  fecond  Letter  :  Which  arc  inconteftible  Proofs 
that  John  Drake  has  not  reprefented  the  Diftance 
nearer  than  it  is.  And  if  a  Perfon  was  even  to 
walk  in  Woods  near  his  own  Houfe,  that  he  had 
not  frequented  for  fome  time,  he  would  be  liable 
to  ramble  out  of  his  Way,  and  that  once  done  in 
a  Wood^  it  is  not  eafy  to  recover.  But  that  Dan- 
G  2  ger 


[  48  ] 

ger  is  over  now,  fmce  even  Izquerda  agrees  it  is 
Camino  Heal  from  that  Village. 

The  flying  of  their  Women  and  Children  to  St. 
Jago,  can  bring  nothing  there  butTerror  and  Conr 
fufion,  and  increafe  their  Straitnefs  of  Provifions  ; 
and  to  follow  this  Terror,  once  begun,  clofe  at  the 
Heels,  gives,  in  my  Apprehenfion,  the  beft  Prof- 
ped  of  Succefs  :  And  I  think  the  greateft  Danger 
you  have  to  run  the  Rifque  of,  is  what  may  arife 
from  Delay,  and  giving  them  Time  to  recover 
from  their  firft  Fright,  and  even  for  preparing 
(what  you  find  hitherto  there  have  been  only  vifi, 
onary  Apprehenfions  of)  Ambufcades. 

I  remember  the  Guide's  Account  was,  that  the 
Way  from  the  Village  to  St.  J  ago  was  through  a 
Notch  of  the  Hill  we  fee  here,  which  lies  diredly 
in  a  Line  over  the  Village,  according  to  the  Ac- 
count I  have  of  the  Bearing  of  the  Village  from  us  ; 
and,  I  apprehend,  cannot  be  far  from  the  Village. 
And  I  imagine  that  from  that  Hill,  as  it  is  high, 
they  cannot  fail  of  feeing  St.Jago :  And  as  there  are 
higher  Grounds  on  each  Side  the  Road,  over  that 
Notch  of  the  Hill,  I  apprehend  Parties  of  Blacks, 
fent  firll  to  the  higher  Grounds  on  each  Side  of 
that  Road,  would  be  an  Ambufcade  upon  any  that 
ihould  be  attempting  to  lie  in  Ambufcade  againft 
you  there,  as  they  could  fall  down  upon  the  Back 
of  them.  And  as  I  think  Delay  the  moft  fatal 
Thing  that  can  happen  to  you,  I  cannot  but  think 
it  my  Duty,  both  in  regard  to  the  Crown  and 
yourfelf,  to  caution  you  againft  it. 

,1  was  pleafed  to  hear  by  Mr.  Littleton^  they  had 
got  about  a  hundred  Horfes  in  a  Pen ;  and  would 
not  ftop  him  for  my  Letter,  from  carrying  you  Hal- 
ters for  them  as  foon  as  he  could  .:  But  as  you  have 
Jorty-eight  Ships  under  your  Orders  in  the  River, 
they  can  much  fooncr  fupply  you  with  any  Thing 

of 


[49] 
ef  that  kind  you  may  want.  I  fcnt  you  my  Ad- 
vice, by  Mr.  Littleton,  to  order  every  one  of  them 
to  be  preparing  two  large  Canvafs  fpreading  Pokes, 
fuch  as  the  Pedlars  travel  with,  with  their  Goods 
in  Boxes,  which  hang  on  each  Side  the  Horfe,  the 
Canvafs  being  fingle  over  the  Horfe*s  Back.  And 
that  they  may  carry  the  more,  I  think  the  Blacks 
ftiould  be  ordered  to  lead  them  on  foot,  and  no 
one  be  permitted  to  ride  them  ;  and  each  Ship 
might  fyrnifh  a  Tarpawling,  for  a  Sumpter-Cloth 
over  them,  to  cover  them  from  the  Rain,  for  fe- 
curing  the  dry  Provifions.  And  for  the  Meat,  the 
empty  Cafks  might  be  carried  by  the  Negroes  after 
them,  for  putting  the  Meat  up  again  into  them  ; 
with  a  Cooper  from  fome  of  the  Tranfports,  to 
head  them,  whenever  you  come  where  you  would 
have  them  lodged  for  Stores. 

And  when  you  are  advanced  fo  far,  as  to  be  fure 
pf  the  Time  when  you  can  appear,  to  attempt  the 
furprizing  of  the  Batteries  above  the  Morro  Caflle, 
the  EJirella,  and  St.  Qatalina,  (mentioned  to  be 
eafiiy.praflicable  in  the  Information  you  have  of 
Henry  Cavcliery  Carpenter ;)  I  will  take  Care  to  be, 
either  myfelf  or  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle,  off  the  Mouth 
pf  the  Harbour,  to  do  all  that  (hall  be  found  to  be 
pra(5blcable  to  be  attempted. 

And  I- believe  you  will  agree  with  me,  that  a 
few  chofen  Men  are  better  to  make  the  Attempt 
with,  than  very  large  Bodies,  that  require  fuch 
large  Supplies  of  Provifions  going  with  them. 

As  to  fecuring  your  Camp  you  are  now  in,  a 
fmall  Number  may  be  fufHcicnt  for  that,  and  you 
may  with  eafe  land  all  your  Field  Pieces  there  for 
its  Security  •,  which  Captain  Fotreji,  I  will  anfwer 
for  him,  will  foon  render  eafily  pra(5^cablc  for  you, 
if  you  defire  it.  "     "**'',  ^^ ' 

'■'       ■      '  And 


[  5°  ] 

And  I  find  the  Village,  for  a  Pofl  of  Commu- 
nication,   is  likewife  very  eafily  fecured,  as  Mr. 
Sturton  writes  me  that  the  River  runs  in  an  El- 
bow half  round  it,  and  likewife  agrees  with  Drake's 
Information,  tha,t  the  Village  lies  near  the  fame 
River,  though  not  navigable  to  it  :  But  this  is  a 
fine  Supply  of  Frefh  Water  for  thofe  pofted  there. 
I  have  reconnoitred  all  the  Coafls  of  this  Har- 
bour, from  the  Mouth  of  the  River  you  are  up, 
to  that  my  Ships  arc  watering  at,  which  is  five 
Leagues  ;    and  can  plainly  perceive,   no  one  can 
come  to  attack  your  Camp  that  Way ;  and  believe 
there  are  no  Inhabitants  to  do  it  Eaftward  of  this 
Harbour.     And  I  am  raifing  a  Redoubt,  to  fccure 
our  watering  at  that  River,  and  Hiall  afterwards  be 
trying   to  find  fome  Communication  with   your 
Camp  from  thence,  which  will  ferve  to  put  it  in 
the  greater  Security  from  all  Surprize. 

You  cannot  but  he  fenfible,  that  the  Security 
of  your  Army  and  all  your  Tranfports,  depends  on 
our  being  in  a  Condition  to  defend  this  Harbour 
from  any  Enemy  coming  by  Surprize  on  us  :  And 
you  know  the  Force  they  have  under  Don  Rodrigo 
de  Torres,  which  may  eafily  come  here,  by  going 
through  the  Gulph,  and  coming  to  the  French 
Ifland  of  Hifpaniola.  And  if  Mr.  Gray^s  Advices, 
"which  I  fent  you,  fhould  be  true,  and  a  Squadron 
Ihould  come  to  join  them  from  France,  the  Fate  of 
this  Expedition  mufl  be  tried  by  a  Sea  Combat, 
and  our  Defeat  would  be  your  certain  Ruin. 

And  befides,  as  I  propofe  being  off  the  Harbour 
to  fecond  your  Attempt  all  I  can,  the  remaining 
Americans  on  board  of  us  would,  in  my  Apprehen- 
.  fion,  be  moft  in  the  Way  on  board  of  our  Ships, 
even  for  throwing  them  afhore  on  the  Batteries  to 
windward  of  the  Morro,  if  pra6ticable,  on  your  -ap- 
pearing off  there.     So  that,  in  all  Lights,  I  cannot 

but 


[  5>  ] 

but  think  them^  for  the  prefcnt,  beft  pofted  here ; 
both  for  the  Security  of  your  Army,  and  feconding 
all  Attempts  on  the  Metro  Caftle  :  And  I  am  per- 
fwaded,  on  Refle(5lion,  you  will  think  fo  too,  and 
approve  of  their  remaining  here.  For  fotne  of  our 
Ships  are  near  a  hundred  Men  fhort  of  Comple- 
ment already,  and  we  have  but^  6ur  fix  Capital 
Ships  to  be  depended  on  for  being  in  Harbour, 
as  the  reft  muft  be  kept  in  conftant  Employment 
in  Cruizing,  fome  to  Block  up  the  Harbour,  and 
the  others  for  watching  the  Motions  of  the  Ene« 
my's  Squadrons  from  all  Parts,  which  I  have  them 
at  prefent  conveniently  pofted  for.  •  "^ 

Your  Letters  were  difpatch*d  for  Jarmica  yef- 
terday  by  Captain  Barnard^  and  juft  before  he 
fail*d  (tho*  after  my  Letters  were  feal'd  up)  I  had 
a  Line  from  Capt.  Forreft,  of  the  advanced  Party 
being  arriv*d  at  the  Village ;  fo  I  had  the  Pleafurc 
of  fending  by  Capt.  Barnard  a.  verbal  Account  of 
it  to  Governor  Irelawney. 

I  have  difpatch*d  the  Tork^  Captain  Cotes^  away 
ioxLtoganey  with  the  Vice  Roy  o^  Mexico* s  Retinue 
(being  twenty-feven)  and  fixteen  mort  Spani/h  Pri- 
soners, that  defir*d  to  be  fet  at  Liberty  there ;  and 
eight  more  I  fent  by  Captain  Broderick  to  Car- 
tbagena,  and  the  Spanijh  Lawyer  by  Captain  Allen 
to  Leogane\    in  all,  fifty-two.     And   confidering 
that  of  thefe  many  were  Officers  and  Gentlemen,; 
I  think,  according  to  the  Ufage  of  War,   thefe 
are  more  than  an  Exchange  for  the  fixty-four  rc- 
leas'd  from  St.  J  ago  :  So  that  I  ftiall  think  of  re- 
leafmg  no  more  at  prefent  -,  and  fhall  be  glad  of 
your  Opinion,  if  you  do  not  think  it  a  full  Eii*-- 
change,  according  to  the  Rules  of  War. 

I  believe  you  will  now  think  it  proper,  to  try  if 
you  cannot  engage  any  of  your  Prifoners  to  dif- 

perfe 


t  52  ] 

perfe  your  Manifeflos,   to  try  what  Effects  they 
may  have. 

I  am  glad  I  can  acquaint  you,  that  Captain  Allen 
is  come  into  the  Harbour,  who  fhall  be  ready 
to  proceed  with  your  Letters;  tor  the  Governors  of 
the  Northern  Colonies,  whenever  you  defire  it, 
i  I  have  fent  Capt.  Chambers  up  with  Capt.  Watfon^ 
who  is  come  in  from  his  Cruize  off  St.  Jago^  in 
cafe  you  might  have  any  Qaeftions  to  afk  him. 

And  with  my  beft  Wifhes  for  the  Profperity  of 
his  Majefty's  Arms  under  your  Condud,  I  am,    • 

SIR, 
Boyne,  Cumberland  Har-  Tour  moji  Obedient, 

hour,  Aug.  2,  1 741.  Humble  Servant, 

E.  V. 

P.  S.  Be  pleafed  to  forward  my  Letter  to  Lieut* 
Slurton,  when  you  write  yourfelf. 

21?  General  W  e  n  t  w  o  r  T  h. 
:  S  I  R,    J  .wi:!-;-' 

I  Have  fenC  you  by  Lieut.  Littleton  a  Sample  of 
the  Canvafs  Pockets,  that  I  think  may  be  fer- 
viceable  to  you  for  conveying  the  Provisions  for 
your  Troops ;  and  on  your  approving  it,  I  have 
order*d  him  to  leave  it  with  Mr.  Wallace,  for  his 
having  as  many  more  immediately  made  as  you 
judge  you  may  want.  You  will  perceive  by  what 
happen*d  yefterday,  in  their  attempting  an  Ambufh 
where  my  fmall  Guard  of  Sailors  were,  that  it  is 
all  a  meer  Jeft,  and  that  they  had  more  kill'd 
than  they  kill*d  of  our  Men ;  tho*  they  catch*d  one 
of  your  Men  eafing  himfelf,  whom  they  treated 
with  fuch  Barbarity,  that,  if  the  Rules  of  War  ad- 
mit  of  it,  I  think  fuch  lurking  Parties  fhould  have 
no  Quarter.  I  did  not  expe<5t  my  Lieutenant  nor 
my  Guide  in  j  but  my  Lieutenant  fays  it  was  Col. 

Cockran'i 


[  53  ] 

Cockfan*s  Order  :  But  I  fhall  fend  him  back  to  his 
Duty  to-day  under  his  former  Orders,  to  attend  the 
Forces  you  order  to  advance  to  St.  JagOy  with  the 
Guide,  and  to  fhew  them  the  Way,  whenever 
you  defire  j  and  I  am  glad  to  hear  they  have  fo  good 
a  Road  before  them. 

The  Prize  brought  in  yefterday  came  from  Port 
PaJJage  the  Middle  of  June,  is  a  prime-failing 
Ship,  bought  from  the  Privateers,  to  be  fenc 
to  the  Vice  Roy  of  Mexico  and  Don  Rodrigo  de 
Torres  with  Difpatches,  which,  he  fays,  he  has 
thrown  into  the  Sea.  She  has  'twenty-four  Guns, 
and  two  hundred  and  twenty  Men ;  and  God*s 
good  Providence  deliver*d  her  into  our  Hands, 
our  Ship  having  a  Gale  of  Wind  to  run  up  witji 
her  when  fhe  was  becalm'd. 

I  fend  you  by  Mr.  Littleton  the  Tranflation  of  a 
Letter,  that  gives  fome  Account  of  European  News, 
and  I  fend  you  the  French  News-Papers  from  Leo- 
gane  ;  and  cannot  forbear,  on  all  Occafions,  repeat- 
ing, that  Delay,  in  niy  Apprehenfion,  is  the  only 
Enemy  we  have  to  fear. 

With  my  beft  Wtfhes  for  Profperity  to  his  Ma-. 
jelly's  Arms  under  your  Conduft,  I  am, 
SIR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Hzx-  Your  mofi  Obedient, 

bour,  Aug.  5,  1 741 .  j^^i^i^  Servant, 

E.  V. 


7i?  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

THIS  will  be  brought  you  by  Lieut.  Sturton, 
who  returns  to  his  Command  under  my  for- 
mer Orders,  of  attending  With  ten  Men,  and  the 
Guide,  John  Drake,  to  fhew  your  advanced  Parties 
the  Road  from  the  Village  to  St.  Jago^   and  the 
H  Batteries 


[  54  ] 

Batteries  above  Morro  Caftle,  whenever  they  have 
your  Orders  to  proceed,  and  you  let  him  know 
your  defire  he  fhould. 

He  has  Jikewife,  on  board  my  Brig  Tender, 
Lieutenant  Lowther  under  his  Orders,  who  fpeaks 
Spanijh  very  well,  and  may  be  otherwife  of  Service ; 
and  I  cannot  omit  mentioning  one  of  his  Remarks 
for  difcovering  Parties  in  the  Woods,  which  is, 
where-ever  Carrion  Crows,  or  other  Birds,  may  be 
feen  hovering. 

So  that  if  you  choofe  Lieut.  Lowther  to  com- 
mand the  Party  inltcad  of  Lieut.  Sturton,  he  has 
my  Orders  to  fend  him,  and  to  ftay  to  command 
the  Brigantine  himfelf. 

And  this  Detachment  going  with  the  Guide 
may  be  of  further  Service  to  you,  if  you  think  of 
having  the  two  Pettereroes  carried  with  the  ad- 
vanced Party  -,  and  our  Men  probably  may  be  beft 
pradticed  in  making  a  proper  Ufe  of  them. 

With  my  beft  Wifhes  of  Succefs  to  his  Majefty's 
Arms  under  your  Condudl,  'Tarn, 
SIR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Har-  Tour  moft  Obedient, 

hour,  ifland  of  Cuba,  jj^^j^i^  Servant, 

Aug.  5,  1 741.  g    y 


Tb  General  Went  worth. 
SIR, 

WE  have  taken  into  mature  Confideration,  to- 
gether, your  Letter  to  Mr.  Vernon  of  the  5th 
of  this  Month,  which  put  us  under  an  equal  Sur- 
prize with  what  fell  from  you  on  the  2  2d  of  July, 
when  we  thought  our  Duty  to  his  Majefty  requir'd 
our  laying  our  Thoughts  before  you  on  that  Sub- 
jed,  by  our  joint  Letter  of  the  23d  oi  July. 

'     And 


[  5S] 

'  And  as  in  your  Letter  now,  you  mention  your 
fpecdily  calling  a  Council  of  War,  in  which  you 
ihall  come  to  a  final  Refolution  •, 

Mr.  Vernon^  who  had  communicated  to  me  be- 
fore all  his  Letters  to  you,  thought  it  advifeable  to 
confult  with  me,  what  anfwer  was  proper  to  be 
fent  you  to  it  5  that  tho'  we  have  not  a  deliberative 
Voice  in  your  Councils  of  War,  we  might  defire 
you  to  communicate  to  them  our  Sentiments,  be- 
fore they  come  to  forming  any  final  Rcfolutions. 

And  having  maturely  confidcr'd  the  Letter  you 
mention  to  have  recfeiv'd  from  Mr.  Vernon,  of 
the  2d  of  Augufi,  and  the  fubfequent  Letters  he 
fent  you  of  the  5th  of  Augufi,  I  cannot  but  join 
with  him  in  Opinion,  that  they  contain  very  fea- 
fonable  and  friendly  Advices  to  you,  and  fuch  as, 
in  our  joint  Apprehenfions,  ought  to  be  laid  be* 
fore  your  Council  of  War,  together  with  our  for- 
mer Letters  to  you  of  the  23d  of  July,  for  theu* 
Confideration,  before  they  come  to  a  final  Refo- 
lution (as  you  fay  is  intended,)  for  preventing  pre- 
cipitate Refolutions  being  form'd. 

In  this  Letter  you  fay,  it  is  not  pofTible  for  any 
Number  of  Men  to  fubfift  many  Days  in  the  Part 
of  which  they  are  at  prefent  poflefs'd  \  which  we 
cannot  conceive  your  meaning  by,  when  you  cxn. 
fupply  them  with  whatever  Provifions  they  want ; 
and  the  further  you  advance,  you  know,  you  com- 
mand open  Savannas  full  of  Cattle  for  further  Sup- 
plies j  as  we  are  inform'd  by  Lieut.  Sturton,  who 
advanced  with  the  Guide  and  your  Parties  as  tar  aa 
they  had  Orders  from  you  for  going. 

Thefe  Defiles  you  mention,  have  been  march*d 
thro',  and  none  of  thofe  Difficulties  met  with  that 
you  are  fo  full  of  Apprehenfions  from  ;  and  for-* 
ward  on  from  the  Village,  there  is  lels  Reafon  to 
apprehend  them,  it  being  allowM  to  be  CaminoReaL 
Hi  Ana 


[S6] 

And  as  to  your  Apprehenfions  from  the  Militia  of 
this  Ifland,  we  cannot  better  lay  before  you  how 
groundlefs  they  gre,  than  by  fending  you  the  in- 
clofed  Informatiwi  from  Mr.  Toller^  one  of  the  late 
releas^d  Prifoners,  whom  your  Council  of  War  may 
have  to  exapiine,  if  they  defire  it  *,  by  which  you 
will  fee,  if  you  do  but  proceed  vigoroufly,  as  de- 
termined to  fucceed,  there  is  the  moft  promifing 
Hopes  of  their  revolting,  and  becoming  willing 
Subjeds  to  our  Royal  Mafter. 

And  as  in  Mr.  Vernon's  Letter  he  has  already 
aflur'd  you,  that  he  will  either  himfelf  be  off  the 
Port  to  meet  you,  or  fend  me  with  fuch  a  Detach- 
ment of  Ships  as  fhall  be  necelTary,  for  doing  every 
Thing  that  can  be  practicable  by  Sea,  at  the  Time 
you  give  him  Notice  you  Ihall  be  ready  to  make 
the  Attack  by  Land  upon  the  Batteries  of  the 
Eflrilla  and  Santa  Catalina  (which  are  reprefented  to 
be  fo  eafily  furpriz'd,  in  the  Information  you  have 
of  Henry  Cavelier^  Carpenter,  who  has  been  lately 
employed  at  work  in  them ;)  and  as  we  fhall  carry 
with  us  the  Americans  remaining  on  board,  to  land 
them  at  the  Batteries  to  windward  (if  pradlicable) 
to  join  you  there,  we  cannot  conceive  how  it  is 
poflible  they  can  be  better  employ'd  for  your  Ser- 
vice, and  the  Succels  of  this  Expedition. 

We  cannot  likewife  but  be  furpriz'd  at  your 
faying,  that  your  being  landed  in  the  Harbour  of 
St.  Jago,  or  at  the  Batteries  to  windward  of  it, 
were  the  principal  Motives  for  your  confenting  to 
this  Undertaking ;  when  you  know  it  was  always 
our  declared  Opinions,  from  the  befl  Advices  we 
had  received,  that  fuch  an  Attempt  was  imprac- 
ticable. But  if  we  find  it  otherwise,  you  may  rely 
on  our  doing  our  Duty  to  the  Crown. 

Every  thing  appears  to  us  moft  providentially  to 
favour  the  Succefs  of  this  Expedition,  as,  by  Lieu- 
tenant 


[  57] 

tenant  Sturton^s  Report  it  appears,  with  very  little 
Trouble  even  our  Cannon  may  be  advanced  to  the 
Polls  that  your  advanced  Guards  are  now  at. 

And  we  apprehend,  that,  with  proper  Care  about 
it,  you  may  be  poffefled  of  what  Horles  you  pleafe, 
to  carry  your  Provifions  with  you  :  But  we  think 
the  principal  Attack,  to  be  tried  on  thofe  upper  Bat- 
teries, fhould  be  attempted  fpeedily  with  a  chofen 
Number  of  Men,  not  to  give  the  Enemy  Time  to 
be  preparing  againft  you. 

We  thought  it  our  Duty  to  lay  our  Thoughts 
thus  feafonably  before  you,  for  your  Council  of 
War*s  knowing  our  Sentiments  in  time,  before 
their  forming  their  final  Refolutions,  as  you  fay  is 
fpeedily  intended. 

With  our  beft  Wilhes  for  the  Profperity  of  his 
Majefly*s  Arms  under  your  Condud,  we  are, 
SIR, 

Cumberland,  in  Cumberland  Xour  mofi  Obedient^ 

Harbour.  South  Side  of  ^^^^^^  Servants, 

Cuba,  Au7.  6,   1741.  ^  ' 

^    '    '^  E.  Vernon, 

C.  Ogle. 


^0  Captain  R 1  n  t  o  n  e,  of  the  Rippon. 
By,  ^c. 

WHereas  I  think  it  of  Importance  to  his  MaT 
jefty's  Service  in  the  prefent  Conjun6lure, 
to  have  a  Communication  immediately  open'd  be- 
tween the  Bluff  to  the  Weftward  of  the  River 
where  our  Ships  are  watering,  and  the  Incamp-' 
ment  on  the  Side  of  the  River  Augufia  \ 
^  You  are  hereby  requir'd  and  direfted,  to  take  with 
you  a  Detachment  of  thirty  Men  of  Capt.  Pepper'*^ 
Company,  now  on  board  of  you,  with  the  faid  Cap- 
tain (who  has  my  Orders  to  obey  your  Command 
on  the  faid  Service;)  and  a  further  Detachment  of 

twcnry 


[  58] 

twenty  American  Forces,  under  one  of  their  Offi- 
cers, from  the  Montagu  and  Ludbis)  Cajile  (whofe 
Captains  you  will  (hew  my  Orders  to,  for  their 
making  the  faid  Detachments  of  twenty  Men  each 
accordingly)  to  be  landed,  for  marching  under 
your  Orders,  by  Day-break  to-morrow  Morning, 
at  the  Bluff  to  the  Weftward  of  the  River  :  From 
whence,  together  with  20  Seamen,  (with  Hand- 
Bills,  for  clearing  the  Underwood  where  neceflary, 
and  armed  with  Sword  and  Piftols  only,  as  you  will 
have  a  fufficient  Number  of  Mufqueteers  from  the 
Detachments  of  AmericanYvoo^s)  you  are  to  march 
very  leifurely,  for  opening  your  Communication 
with  the  faid  Encampment  on  the  River  Augufia. 

And  you  will  order  it,  if  you  can,  to  march  in 
three  open  Files,  for  better  difcovering  any  At- 
tempts to  Ambufcade  you,  having  a  Lieutenant  to 
command  the  Party  that  advances  before  your  Sea-^ 
men  for  cutting  the  Underwood,  and  he  having  a 
Serjeant  with  a  Detachment  of  his  Men  before  him. 
And  as  the  Way  is  not  judged  to  be  above  four  or 
five  Miles  difVance,  and  they  need  only  clear  the 
Underwood  for  making  an  open  Way  to  be  (ttn 
through,  I  apprehend  it  can  eafily  be  done  in  a 
Morning  •,  and  Orders  fhall  be  fent  for  the  De-r 
^achment  being  vidualled  on  board  my  Brigantine, 
and,  if  the  Way  is  found  tirefome,  to  reft  there 
for  returning  next  Day. 

And  as  Troops  in  a  Wood  cannot  be  formed  in 
a  regular  Order,  you  will  difpofe  your  Officers  in 
the  beft  Manner,  for  commanding  the  refpedtive 
Detachments ;  and  let  them  not  m^rch  with  their 
Mufquets  fhouldered,  but  refted  on  their  Arms,  to 
prevent  Surprizes,  and  be  the  readier  to  receive  an 
Enemy.  And  give  this  general  Order  to  all  com- 
manding the  feveral  Detachments,  to  fland  their 
Ground,  and  face  their  Enemy  wherever  they  ap- 
pear. 


[  S9l 

|)car,  and  to  defend  themfelves  as  becomes  bold  Bri- 
tons, and  giveTime  to  your  other  Parties  to  come  up 
to  fupport  them  \  inculcating  this  general  Maxim  to 
them,  that  facing  one's  Enemy  is  the  beft  Security, 
and  turning  one's  Back  to  them  is  abandoning  one's 
felf  to  fure  Deftrudion  -,  an  Order  I  judge  not  im- 
proper for  new-raifed  Troops.  And  for  all  other 
Orders  found  neceflary,  I  rely  on  your  approv'd 
Judgment  and  Refolution.     For,  ^c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne,    in  Cumberland  Har- 
bour, (^c,  this  6th  oi  Aiigufi,  174I' 

To  Captain  Forrest,  of  the  Alderney  Bomb. 

By,  IBc. 
"11  /  Hereas  I  have  ordered  Captain  Rentone^^  ^ith 
▼  ▼  a  Detachment  of  Marines  and  Seamen,  to 
open  a  Way  of  Communication  to-morrow  Morn- 
ing, between  the  Bluff  to  the  Weftward  of  the 
River  our  Ships  Water  at,  and  the  general  En- 
campment ; 

For  his  better  Guidance  in  fo  doing,  you  are 
hereby  required  and  direded,  to  take  with  you  a 
Detachment  of  thirty  Men,  from  the  Bomb-Ketch 
under  your  Command,  and  my  Brig  Tender,  and 
to  take  Poft  with  therii  early  to-morrow  Morning 
upon  the  Hill  juft  above  the  Camp,  where  Lieu- 
tenant Taylor  made  his  Bonfire  yeflcrday  Evening  : 
Which  you  are  accordingly  to  renew  to-morrow 
Morning,  to  fcrve  for  a  Guidance  to  Capt.  Rentone 
in  his  moving  towards  you.  And  you  will  from 
thence  keep  a  good  Look-out  towards  the  faid 
Bluff  (where  a  Fire  is  likewife  ordered  to  be  kept^ 
they  being  reckon'd  to  bear  neareft  E.  N.  E.  and 
W.S.W.  of  each  other*, )  to  obferve  that  no  Parties 
of  the  Enemy  be  moving  that  Way  to  annoy  them ; 
in  which  Cafe,  you  are  to  move  to  fuftain  them, 

taking 


t6o] 

taking  Care  to  fend  the  General  immediate  Notici^, 
^d  defire  he  would  detach  out  Forces  to  fuftain 
you;  and  you  will  acquaint  the  General,  if  ftirring, 
or  the  Commanding  Officer,  with  the  Orders  you 
have. 

And  defire  of  them  from  me,  that  they  would 
fend  out  Orders  to  their  advanced  Guards  and  Cen- 
tries,  to  acquaint  them  of  it,  and  give  out  the 
fame  Words  to  the  Centries  (for  preventing  Mrf- 
takes)  as  I  have  ordered  for  our  Party. 

Which  are,  for  thofe  challenged  to  anfwer  to 
the  Centries,  or  Party  challenging,  in  thefe  Words, 
Great  Marlborough's  Glory  ;  and  the  Cen- 
try,  or  Party  challenging,  to  anfwer.  Victory. 
For,  ^c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne  in  Cumberland  Har- 
bour (forinerly  called  JVaUhenam)  on  the  South  Side 
oi  Cuba,  x.\i\s  6t\i  oi  Augufty  1741. 


To  Mr.  Wallace. 
SIR, 

I  Have  this  Evening  receivM  your  Letter  j  and  was 
glad  to  hear  Provifions  were  fent  on  board  the 
Borfetjhire  for  the  one  hundred  and  forty-one  Spanijh 
Prisoners  you  defire  for  the  Tranfports,  which  I 
fhall  make  the  Difpofition  for  fending  on  board  of 
her  on  Tuefday  Morning. 

I  was  glad  to  hear  you  were  clearing  Tranfports 
to  fend  for  Provifions  for  the  Army ;  and  as  you 
fupply  Provifions  to  the  Army,  pray  order  it  to 
clear  fome  for  the  Fleet  too,  as  I  muft  defire  the 
General  to  fpare  me  fome  of  them  "(I  believe j 
to  fetch  Supplies  for  us.  Pray  contrive  that 
thofe  defign'd  for  both  Services  may  be  good 
Sailors,  that  they  may  the  more  fpeedily  ply  up  to 
windward  to  us  >  and  I  have  defigned  a  Ship  for 

Convoy, 


r  61  ] 

Convoy,  that  l)iall  be.  ready  to  fail  whenever  flie  is 
defired. 

I  am  fure  thole  Bags  will  do  for  carrying  Provi- 
iions,  and  the  Weight  be  nothing  to  a  Horle,  pro- 
vided no  one  be  fufFer'd  to  ride  them  *,  and  a  little 
long  Grafs  laid  upon  the  Horfes  Backs  under  them, 
will  make  them  lie  eafier  and  cooler  to  them  than 
a  Pack-Saddle.     I  am, 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  /v      '  /        1 1    n 

Harbour,  Qiba,  Tour  humble  Ssrvant, 

■^"g-  9'  i74»-  E.  V. 


^0  Capt.  Forrest,  of  the  Alderncy  Bomb. 
SIR, 

Lieutenant  Porter  brought  me  laft  Night  a  large 
Packet  from  the  General,  which  I  have  not  yet 
had  time  to  read  over  this  Morning  ;  but  having 
caft  my  Eye  on  the  Refolution,  I  fee  plainly  it  is 
againft  advaiKtng  any  further. 

And  if  that  be  the  Cafe,  I  apprehend  there  can 
be  no  occafion  for  Lieut.  Lowther  and  his  Party, 
with  my  Guide,  cotntinuing  any  longer  abfent  on 
board  the  Brig  Tender.       -" 

I  would,  therefore,  defire  you  immediately  to 
wait  qn  the  GeneraJ,  to  know  whether  he  is  de- 
firous  he  flxould  qpntinue  with  his  advanced  Party 
any  longer  :  And  if  he  does  not,  as  it  was  only 
for  his  Service  and  at  his  Defire  that  he  was  fent, 
pray  do  you  lend  him  Orders  to  return,  with  the 
next  Orders  the  General  fends  that  way  •,  and  fend  a 
Meflenger  of  your  own  with  your  Orders  to  him, 
by  the  next  Party  that  goes  that  way.  And  pray 
tranfad  thefe  Orders  yourfelf,  as  I  rely  on  your 
Prudence  for  the  carc;ful  Execution  of  them. 

I       *  *  '"'^"  ^-  I  was 


[    62    ] 

i  was  pleasM  to  hear  you  found  fo  fliort  and 
good  a  Road  back  to  the  Camp.     I  am, 

SIR, 
Cutnberland  Harbour,  Tour  very  btimhk  Servant, 

Jug.  lo,  1741.  E.  V, 

P.  S.    Deliver  the  inclofed  to  Lieut.  S fur  ton  in 
your  Way. 


To  General  Wentworth. 
S  T  R, 

IT  being  laft  Night  that  your  Letter  of  the  9th 
was  brought,  with  the  inclofed  Refolutions  of 
your  Council  of  War,  and  the  Reports  of  feveral 
of  your  principal  Officers,  and  the  Examination  of 
a  Spaniffo  Prifoner,  there  was  no  Opportunity  for 
their  being  fooner  taken  into  Confideration  than 
to-day. 

We  have  read  them  over  together  attentively, 
and  having  obfervM  in  your  Letter,  that  you  had 
communicated  to  your  C©uncil  of  War  all  the  fe- 
veral Advices  given  by  us  to  you,  as  (in  our  Opinions) 
mod  for  his  Majefly's  Honour  and  Service,  and 
your  own  •,  and  having  confider'd  that,  notwith- 
flanding,  your  Council  of,  War  have,  in  their  faid 
Refolutions,  declar'd, 

"That  they  cannot  march  anyBodyof  theirTroops 
"  further  into  the  Country,  without  expofing  them 
^'  to  certain  Ruin ;  and  that  they  are  firmly  of 
"Opinion,  that  their  advancing  with  their  Army 
"  to  St.  JagOy  in  their  prefent  Circumflances,  is 
"  impradficable.'* 

As  the  Operations  of  the  Army  are,  by  his  Ma- 
jefty's  Inflru6l:ions,  left  under  the  particular  Di- 
reflions  o(-a  Council  of  War  of  your  own  Officers  \ 
after  their  liaving  in  luch  a  manner  deliver'd  their 
Opinions,  it  would  ill  become  us  to  be  giving  our 

Opinions 


[63]      • 

Opinions  in  fuch  Matters,  that  his  Majefty's  In- 
ftrudions  had  left  to  the  particular  Deliberations 
of  your  Council  of  War. 

But  we  may  obferve  to  you.  Sir,  that  a  good 
Part  of  thefe  Objections  are  founded  on  the  Dif- 
ficulty of  an  Army*s  marching  from  hence  to 
St.  Jago  with  Cannon  •,  which  is  what  we  never 
conceiv'd  to  be  neceflary.  .^r  .,,     ■l:--'^ 

But  had  it  been  found  pra6licable,"  on  your  firft 
landing,  for  a  chofen  Detachment  of  a  thoufand 
Men,,  with  a  thoufand  Negroes  to  have  gone  with 
them  for  carrying  a  Week*s  Provifions,  to  have 
tried  if  thofe  upper  Batteries,  of  the  Eftrella  and 
Santa  Catalina,  could  not  have  been  furpriz*d  and 
taken  with  Facility,  as  was  reprefented  in  Henry 
Cavelier*s  Information ;  (which  would  have  been  but 
the  Experiment  of  a  Day ;)  we  apprehend  the  Fate 
of  St.  Jago  might  have  been  tried  and  determin'd 
before  now :  And  if  the  Forces  had  not  found  that 
Facility  in  furprizing  them  as  was  reprefented,  they 
would  have  had  fufEcient  Provifions  tor  their  Retreat 
to  the  Camp.  And  as,  on  their  fucceeding,  we  fliould 
have  been  one  of  us  at  hand  to  have  endeavour*d 
to  have  pufh-d  into  the  Harbour,  the  Town  of 
St.  Jago,  and  all  the  reft,  would  have  fallen  of 
Courfei  the  Town  being  an  open  Town,  that  would 
have  been  under  the  Command  of  our  Guns.  And  if 
this  Method  had  been  thought  proper  to  have  been 
purfued,  we  apprehend  they  would  not  have  had 
Time  for  amending  their  former  Overfights,  by 
taking  fome  Care  to  fecure  the  back  Door ;  whereas, 
from  all  former  Informations,  they  had  only  been 
providing  to  fecure  the  fore  Door,  the  Entrance 
4nto  the  Harbour. 

We  flatter  ourfelves,  that  in  our  former  Advices, 

we  have  a(5led  with  a  finccre  Regard  for  his  Majefty** 

][ionour  and  Service,  and  a  friendly  Gopd^will  tp 

I  2  yours. 


[64] 

yours.  And  we  are  determined,  with  our  beft  Care, 
to  cultivate  a  good  Underftahdiiig  \vith  you,  and 
liich  as  are  in  Chief  Command,  agteeably  to  his 
Majefty's  Inftruftions  •,  which  we  defire  you  will 
afllire  the  other  General  Officers  of-,  as  tnfcy  have 
done  us,  in  the  general  Refolution  you  fent  the 
Copy  of  inclbfed. 

With  our  beft  Wiflies  for  the  Profperity  bf  his 
Majefty's  Arms  under  your  'Condud,  we  are, 

SIR, 

$oyne,  m  CamlTerland  Harbour  ^our  mofi  Ohedienty 
(formerly  c^\VAWahhenam)  '  .  ;^^^^/^  Servants^ 

on  the  bouth  bide  of  Qiba,  -i-    *r 

Jug.  lo.^y^x.  KVerno^I. 

C.  Ogle. 


j^ 


7i>  (7^«^r^/ W 1 1*  T  w  o  u  T  ft. 
S  I  R, 

YOURS  of  the  1 1  th,  mentioning  your  having 
communicated  to  the  Members  of  your  Council 
of  War  ours  of  the  loth,  was  brought  by  Lieut. 
Pearfe  this  Morning,  and  we  foon  after  rhtt  to  take 
it  into  Confideration. 

And  it  was  with  Pleafure  we  obferv'd  your  men- 
tioning the  Members  of  your  Council  of  War  join- 
ing with  you,  in  afluring  us  that  nothing,  on  your 
Parts,  will  be  wanting  to  cultivate  the  good  Cor- 
refporidence  fo  ftrongly  recommended  by  his  Ma- 
jefty ;  and  which  we  gave  you,  as  was  our  Duty, 
the  like  Aflurance  of  on  ours. 

And  we  flatter  ourfelves,  all  our  Advices  to  you 
will  appear  to  all  impartial  Men,  to  have  had  no 
other  Motive  than  his  Majefty's  Honour  and  Ser- 
vice (to  the  beft  of  our  Judgements)  and  a  friendljf 
Concern  for  yours. 

And  as  you  are  defir'd  by  the  Gentlemen  of  your 
Council  of  War,   to  haVe  a  General  Council  of 

War 


[  65  ] 

War  held,  to  conlider  of  what  is  mofl  proper  w 
be  done  in  the  prefent  Circumftanccs,  we  very 
,  readily  confent  to  what  you  defire ;  and  that  yom 
and  the  principal  Officers  of  your  Army  may  not 
be  cali'd  far  from  your  Camp,  we  have  agreed 
to  be  on  board  the  Vefuvius  Firefhip,  Capt.  Tomfbn, 
to-morrow  Morning  before  eight  o'Clock,  and  to 
bring  our  two  Senior  Captains  with  us  ;  and  the 
Signal  fhall  be  made  for  the  faid  General  Council 
of  War,  on  board  the  fald  Firelhip,  by  eight 
o'clock  at  fartheft.     We  are, 

SIR,  .   . 

Qanheriand,  in  Cumher-  ToUT  Itt&ft  Obeditftt-ij^^  ^■ 

Und  Harbour,  G^,  f/?^w^/^  Servants^  '-"-I 

'  COgle."^ 


''  .,nw> 


31?  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

CAptain  Hopkins  brought  me  your  Letter  of  the 
1 2th  yefterday  in  the  Evening,  on  board  the 
Vejuvius  Firefhip,  in  the  River  Augufta ;  and  I 
defir'd  he  would  be  on  board  the  Seahorfe  this 
Morning,  and  Capt.  Allen  fhould  have  his  Orders 
to  fail  with  him  this  Afternoon.  Capt.  Allen  has 
had  his  Orders,  as  you  defir'd,  with  the  AfTurances 
of  PrOteftion  for  all  Ships  or  VelTels  coming  with 
Recruits  or  Provifions  for  the  Army  ♦,  but  we  have 
heard  nothing  further  of  Captain  Hopkins,  which 
I  thought  proper  to  advife  you  o£ 

And  an  Information  in  relation  to  Col.  C u 

coming  to  my  Hands,  that  will,  I  am  perfwaded, 
furprize  you  as  much  as  it  did  me,  I  thought  it 
for  his  Majefty's  Service,  early  to  tranfmit  a  Copy 
of  it  to  you,  as  thinking  it,  in  our  prefent  Cir- 
<jumftances,  of  a  criminal  Nature  :  And  1  doubt 

not 


[66  ] 

not  but  you  will  take  early  Meafures  to  prevent 
Shipping  off  Mules  or  Horfes,  when  they  are  fo 
much  wanted  for  his  Majcfty's  Service.     I  am, 
S  I  R, 

Boyue^  In  Cumberland  2'our  Moji  Ohdicnty 

Harbour,  i^c.  Humble  Servant, 

-      ^g-  H.  1741-  £    y 


^0  Captain  Forrest,  of  the  Al^erney  Bomb. 
SIR, 

I  Have  fent  you  inclofed  a  Copy  of  Lieutenant 
Lxvther*s  Journal,  and  Captain  Chambers*s  Re- 
port and  Obfervations,  for  the  General,  according 
to  ray  Promife  to  him  ;  and  an  Order  to  Lieutenant 
^tnnes  to  return  to  his  Duty  :  And  I  defire  you  will 
go  up  to  the  Camp,  and  deliver  them  both  yourfelf 
into  their  refpeftive  Hands^  witli  my  Service  to  the 
General.     I  am, 

SIR, 

j^oyne,  in  Cumberland  Harbour,        Xour  bumhk  Servanty    ■■; 
pilay  Juguji  i<^,   1741.  .^  E'Vi 

To  Mr.  Thomas  Innes,  Firft  Lieutenant  of  the 
Grafton. 
By,  ^c. 
"llZHereas  the  Seairity  of  the  Army  will  in  great 
^^    meafure  depend  on  the  Fleet's  being  able  to 
jnaintain   its  Poll  in  this  Harbour,   againft   any 
Force  the  Enemy  can  bring  j  who,  we  know,  car- 
ried with  them  from  Cartbagena  twelve  Ships -of  the 
Line,  under  Don  Rodrigo  de  'Torres,  for  the  Havanna, 
and  had  three  Ships  of  the  Line  there  before  : 

As  I  judge  it  neceflary,  for  our  fupporting  our- 
felves  againft  any  fuperior  Power,  to  throw  up  fome 
Batteries,  both  on  the  Eaft  Point  of  tl;e  Harbour^ 

an4 


and  the  little  Ifland  above  us ;  and  as  you  think 
yourfelf  to  have  fome  Judgment  as  an  Engineer :  ^tj 
You  are  hereby  required  and  directed,  immedi- 
ately to  repair  to  your  Duty,  as  Firft  Lieutenant  of 
his  Majcfty's  Ship  the  Grafton^  I  defigning  to  try 
what  Judgment  you  have  in  that  Way,  by  your 
preparing  me  a  Plan  for  fuch  Batteries  as  I  fhall 
give  you  Direflions  in,  and  drawing  a  Scheme  how 
your  faid  Plan  is  to  be  executed  ;  by  which  I  Ihall 
foon  be  enabled  to  judge  of  your  Capacity  that  way* 
.  But  if  General  Wentworth  fhould  have  fo  little 
Confidence  in  the  Engineer  he  has,  as  to  think 
your  Service  as  an  Engineer  of  Confequence  to  him, 
and  ihould  have  an  Inclination  to  appoint  yoii 
fuch  ;  if  you  chufe  ferving  the  Crown  under  him 
rather  than  in  the  Poll  you  are  in,  I  Ihall  be  ready 
to  oblige  the  General  v/ith  yourDifcharge,  if  he  and 
you  requeft  it,  as  you  know  our  Service  admits  no 
Sine-Cures  •,  and  I  fhall  then  commit  fuchWorks  to 
the  Care  of  others.  And  upon  fight  of  this  Order, 
you  are  immediately  to  repair  to  your  Duty.  ; 
Given  on  board  the  Boyne^  in  Cumberland  Mar-^ 
hour,  ( formerly  called  JValthenam )  on  the  South 
Side  of  Cuifa,  the  15th  of  ^ugufiy  1741. 

"     ' ' "^ —      '.  ";  .'.v!; 

u\.  'To  General  Went w a il th.  ■  k-,  tisud 

-uS  IR,    '  .    -t  ,-.; 

BEING  defirous  to  tranfmit  your  Letters  tO 
your  Hands  as  foon  as  I  can,  I  difpatch  them 
to  you  before  I  have  read  all  my  Letters. 

But  finding  two  Paragraphs  in  Captain  Daveri^% 
Letter,  relating  to  the  Norway- Merchant  Tranfport,. 
and  Ly7in  Hofpital-Ship,  I  have  drawn  out  Extracts 
of  them  for  you,  that  you  may  give  the  Orders  ia 
the  Affair  that  you  think  proper  i  and  I  cannot  but 
agree  with  Captain  Davers,  that  it  would  be  proper 
to  difcharge  them  from  the  Service.  *  •,•   •■5» 

'■-ni  ^  For 


[68] 

For  were  the  Lynn  Hofpital-Ship  here,  (he  could 
h&  of  no  Service  to  you,  as  fhe  draws  too  much 
Water  for  getting  her  into  the  River  Augujia ;  fo 
that  flie  muft  lie  in  the  Harbour  within  us,  which  I 
take  to  be  at  Icaft  ^tvcn  Leagues  from  your  Camp, 
which  would  render  her  of  no  Service  to  you  as  an 

Hofpital-Ship.     And  I  t;ike   Mr.  C- /'$  Soli- 

citoufnefs  about  her,  to  be  in  regard  to  other  Mer- 
chandize on  board,  that  might  not  be  fo  fervice- 
able  to  the  Army  ;  well  knowing  he  has  made  ufc 
of  his  Majefty's Tranfports  for  his  private  Service, 
by  my  having  figncd  Bills  of  Exchange  for  near 
feven  thoufand  Pounds,  for  French  Bj  -andies  by  him 
fold  to  the  Agent  Viftuallers  for  the  Fleet,  and  de- 
livered from  the  Tranfports  ;  and  aU  the  Medicine- 
Chefts  and  the  Surgeons  are  already  arrived. 

I  fend  you  likewife  inclofed  a  Cjopy  of  the  Re- 
port from  the  Matters  of  the  two  Tranfports,  ia 

regard  to  Colonel  C »'s  Negotiations  for  Ihip- 

ping  off  Mules  and  Horfes  for  j/atnaica  j  which  I 
thought  the  more  proper,  as  you  will  obferve  that 
they  were  to  go  now  with  the  Tranfports  going  for 
Provifions. 

The  Convoy  to  go  with  thef  e  Tranfports,  when- 
ever you  have  them  cleared  fo  r  fending  them,  has 
been  for  fome  Days  pad  read  y,  being  Capt.  Hore 
in  the  Ludlow-Cajlle.  I  flioulci  be  glad  to  have  two 
of  them  for  bringing  up  the  Provifions  for  the 
Fleet,  and  to  know  the  Time  you  think  you  fhaJl 
have  thofe  Tranfports  ready  f  or  failing  for  Jamaica^ 
1  that  I  may  have  all  my  Letters  and  Orders  ready 
i«o  go  by  the  Convoy. 

I  am  glad  I  can  acquaint  you,  that  Part  of  the 
<f?argo  of  Captain  Tr^t/^^r's  Prize,  taken  off  Rio  La 
Hachay  is  Cloathing  for  three  thoufand  Sailors  and 
ff  vc  hundred  Soldiers,  on  board  Don  Rodrigo  de 
1,  orres's  Squadron  at  the  Havarma^ 


[  69] 

I  hear  of  no  Englijh  News  later  than  the  News* 
Papers  of  the  8th  of  May ;  but  am  dilpatching 
Captain  Hervey  to  Leogane  to-day,  for  trying  what 
News  we  can  pick  up  among  them. 

I  fent  one  of  my  Lieutenants  to  reconnoitre  hoW 
far  the  River  is  navigable  for  Boats  above  your 
Camp,  which  I  find  to  be  about  three  Miles  higher; 
which  is  half  a  Mile  higher  up  the  River  than  your 
advanced  Party  firft  crofs*d  it :  So  that  Provifions 
can  eafily  be  conveyed  by  Boats  to  the  other  Side 
of  the  River,  at  that  firfl  Crofling  the  River;  which 
I  thought  it  material  to  inform  you  of. 

The  Augufta  with  her  Tranfports  was  feen  off 
here  at  Sea  laft  Night,  and  I  hear  they  bring  you 
feventy-five  Men  in  the  miffing  Tranlport,  and^ 
one  hundred  and  fixty-two  of  your  recover*d  Men 
in  the  other  two  Tranfports.  I  am, 
^  IR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumber landHsxhoMTy      Tour  tnoft  Obedient^ 

Cuba,  Juguft  17,    1 741.  Humble  Servant^ 

E.  V. 


To  General  Wentworth, 
SIR, 

VOURS  of  the  17th  was  brought  me  laft 
-■'  Night;  and  I  have  been  this  Morning  to  re- 
connoitre the  Eaftern  Entrance  into  this  Harbour^ 
where  I  intend  erecting  a  Battery,  if  you  can  affift 
us  from  your  Ordnance  Stores,  for  laying  the 
Platforms.  I  then  faw  two  of  your  Tranfports,  and 
have  given  the  neceflary  Orders  for  their  being 
piloted  up  the  River  to  you,  as  you  defire;  and 
whenever  you  will  plcafe  to  fend  your  two  white 
Prifoners  down,  they  Ihall  be  recewid  on  board  my 
Ships,  as  you  defire. 

K  I  wag 


[7°] 

I  was  glad  to  hear  you  had  taken  effeflual  Mea- 
fiires,  to  prevent  the  Shipping  off  for  Jamaica  fuch 
Horfes  and  Mules  as  have  already  been  fecured  for 
the  Service  of  the  Army. 

In  all  the  Advice  given  by  me  and  Sir  Chaloner 
Ogle,  I  can  afllire  you,  we  had  nothing  in  View 
but  the  Honour  and  Profperity  of  his  Majefty's 
Arms,  and,  of  confequence,  yours,  who  had  the 
Chief  Command  of  his  Army. 

I  hope  the  Gentlemen  of  your  Council  have  had 
no  other  Views  in  the  Advice  they  have  given  you ; 
and  where  one  of  them  appear'd  to  me  to  have 
felfilh  Views,  I  thought  it  my  Duty  early  to  advife 
you  of  it. 

And  you  will  find  in  me  an  Inclination,  at  all 
Times,  to  maintain  an  amicable  Correfpondence 
with  you.     I  am,     ' 

SIR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumherland  Har-  YoWT  mofi  Obedient^ 

bour,  Aug.  1 8,  1 741.  Humble  Servant^ 

E.  V, 


To  General  Wentworth: 
SIR, 

I  Received   yours  of  the    i8th  laft   Night,    by 
which  I  find  Mr.  C /  does   not   reprefent 

Things  truly  to  you.  You  know,  Sir,  when  I 
found  the  Army*s  Medicines  and  Surgeons  were 
left  behind,  I  offer'd  you  a  Ship  to  fetch  them 
with  Expedition  to  you,  which  was  done  accord- 
ingly, well  knowing  the  Lynn  Hofpital-Ship  to  be 
a  heavy  Ship,  that  could  not  be  depended  upon  to 
be  got  here  in  time ;  and  I  was  not,  therefore,  for 
having  their  coming  depend  on  fuch  a  Contin- 
gency as  getting  a  heavy  Leewardly  Ship  up  to 
windward.     But  I  believe,   as  we  are  ftationed 

and 


[  /•  ] 

and  my  Cruizers  pofted,  Mr.  C^ — /,  and  his  Lymi 
too,  might  have  come,  as  to  any  Danger  from  an 
Enemy,  with  as  much  fafety  as  any  Man  can  walk 
from  the  Royal  Exchange  to  IVeJiminJier  \  and  no 
Officer  of  mine  would  have  given  him  any  Impedi- 
ment, if  he  could  have  found  Men  to  fail  her,  as 
they  are  chartered  to  do. 

Since  there  feems  fo  much  Time  wanting  to 
credt  this  Magazine,  I  muft  beg  the  Favour  of  you 
to  order  Mr.  Wallace  to  clear  the  Provifions  out  of 
the  Traniports  you  defign  to  fend  to  'Jamaica^  for 
your  Provifions  and  ours,  into  other  Tranfports, 
that  they  may  fail  as  foon  as  polTible ;  as  I  ftopp'd 
the  Convoy  for  going  with  them,  and  want  her 
to  be  going  with  fuch  neceflary  Orders  as  are 
wanting  to  be  fent  to  Jamaica.  And  I  fhould 
be  glad  to  know,  as  foon  as  I  can,  of  the  certaia 
Day  they  can  be  ready. 

If  you  have  any  Soldiers  you  fufpe<5l  of  defign- 
ing  to  defert,  and  you  fend  them,  as  we  are  (hort 
of  Complement,  they  Ihall  be  received  :  But  I 
can't  think  their  only  being  Irijhmen  a  fufficient 
Inducement  for  it.  Your  firft  advanced  Party  was 
made  up,  to  a  very  few  Men,  of  the  Americans  y 
I  fent  up  in  my  Flotilla  a  hundred  Blacks  j  and  as 
to  the  Company  from  this  Ship,  I  know  they  were 
moftly  compo^d  of  Irijhmen,  and  fome  of  them 
Convids :  Yet,  by  the  Report  of  Capt.  Wajhington^ 
their  Captain,  they  all  went  on  the  Service  with 
great  Chearfulnefs,  and  are  all  return*d  according 
to  your  Orders,  without  a  Man  deferting ;  and  they 
were  conccrnM  to  be  recallM,  and  expreiVd  them- 
felves  defirous  of  going  again.  And  for  the  fmal) 
Party  of  my  Men  that  their  Ambufh  endeavour'd 
to  furprize,  the  Man  of  mine  that  was  lb  much 
wounded,  and  behaved  himfelf  fo  gallantly  (as  did 
all  of  that  fmall  Party)  was  one  Hugh  Machara,  an 
K  2  Irijhman  : 


[7=>1 

Jrijhmnn  :  And  as  he  is  difabled  from  getting  his 
Bread,  I  have  made  him  Cook  of  this  Ship  for  it. 
I  think  any  thing  of  a  general  national  Refiedion 
(hould  be  ftiidioufly  avoided,  which  you  will  be  fo 
good  as  to  excufe  me  in  a  friendly  mention  of. 
I  am, 

SIR, 

Btyyne,  in  Ctmhr/an J  Hzrboar,        Tour  mojl  Obedient^ 
Cuba,  Jug.  \(),  17 ^u  Humble  Servant^ 

E.V. 


^0  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

I  Have  reccivM  yours  of  the  19th;  and  Unce  you 
fay  the  Storehoufe  will  be  ready  to  receive  Pro- 
vifions  the  latter  End  of  this  Week,  as  that  will 
make  fo  fmall  a  Difference,  I  willingly  acquiefce 
in  what  Mr.  Wallace  gives  his  Reafons  for,  for  the 
Service  of  the  Crown  :  But  hope  he  will  contrive 
to  have  them  all  in  a  readinefs  for  failing  before 
the  Middle  of  next  Week,  and  fliould  be  glad  to 
know  the  certain  Day  they  can  be  ready. 

The  beft  Intelligence  I  have  fent  me  being  con-, 
tained  in  two  Letters,  one  from  Csipt,  Bofcawen  and 
the  other  from  Mr.  Gray,  I  fend  them  to  you  to 
penife,  by  Captain  Hore,  who  is  to  convoy  the 
Tranfports  to  Jamaica  ;  and  I  fend  you  likewife  in-r 
clofed  the  Letter  I  had  from  Governor  Trelawney,, 
by  Mr.  Hodgfon ;  and  fhould  have  fent  you  by  him 
my  Letter,  but  that  I  imagined  he  had  writ  to  you 
to  the  fame  purport.  Thefe  Letters  you  will  pleafe 
to  return  me  when  you  have  perufed  them. 

And  I  have  direded  Mr.  Hodgfon  to  affure  you, 
tliat  if  you  approved  of  lending  a  Detachment  of 
i.  hundred  Men  with  him,  as  the  Governor  defired, 

I  would 


[73  ] 

I  would  readily  /end  a  Man  of  War  to  convoy 
them,  and  protect  them  there  for  fome  time. 

You  will  fee  by  Mr.  1relawmy*%  Letter,  he  pro- 
pofes  making  Mr.  Hodgjon  Governor  of  Raiati 
Ifland,  and  giving  Land,  as  an  Encouragement,  tq 
fuch  as  will  go  there. 

And  I  doubt  not  but,  with  your  Leave,  there 
would  be  Voluntier  Officers  and  Men  ready  to  go 
with  Mr.  Hodgfon^  with  a  View  of  fettling  there, 
that  Ifland  being  reputed  very  fertile ;  and  it  is  cer- 
tainly well  fituated  for  proteding  our  Logwood 
Trade  -,  and  the  fecu ring  it,  would  not  only  be  fer- 
viceable  in  that  refpeA,  but  keep  it  from  being  a  fu- 
ture Receptacle  for  Pirates,  as  it  was  twenty  Years 
ago  :  So  that  I  can't  but  give  it  as  my  Opinion,  that 
fuch  a  Settlement  would  be  of  National  Service. 
And  if  you  approve  of  detaching  a  hundred  Ame- 
ricans thither,  I  will  fend  a  twenty-gun  Ship  to 
convoy  them,  and  to  cruize  off  there  for  fomeTime 
for  their  Proteftion,  before  (he  returns  to  bring  us 
fome  certain  Accounts  of  their  Succefs,  and  how 
thofe  fettled  on  the  Mo[quUo  Shore,  and  the  Log- 
wood-Cutters in  the  Bay,  approve  of  it,  and  are 
inclin*d  to  come  in  and  fupport  it.     I  am, 

S  1  R, 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Harbour,  ToW  moji  Obedient^ 

Cuba,  Jug.  2^,1-^1.  Hj^„ji,ig  Servant, 

E.  V. 


7b  General  Win t worth. 
SIR, 

I  Have  jufl  now  received  yours  \  and  ^^•as  forry  to 
find  the  Stores  of  your  IVain  fo  fliorr,  that  we 
can  expeft  no  Affiftance  from  it  i  fo  mult  turn  our 
Thoughts  to  do  as  well  as  we  can  witliout. 

I  was 


[74] 

I  was  glad  to  hear  you  found  the  Enemy's  Party 
fuch  as  I  always  reprefented  them  to  you,  that 
they  would  not  ftand  the  Teft  with  thofe  that 
pulh'd  them  heartily. 

As  to  what  you  mention  of  a  Robbery  on  board 
the  Tranfports  •,  as  they  are  under  your  Jurifdidion, 
I  look  on  them  as  moft  properly  under  your  Cog- 
nizance, I  never  having  had  any  particular  Orders 
in  regard  to  them.  And  were  I  to  hold  a  Court 
Martial  on  it,  it  muft  be  from  the  Party  robb*d 
lodging  his  Complaint,  and  fwearing  to  it  before 
tlie  Judge  Advocate,  and  appearing  perfonally  as 
an  Evidence  on  the  Trial.  And  confidering  they 
have  not  been  direded  by  Authority  to  be  under 
my  Jurifdiftion,  I  am  in  fome  Doubt  as  to  pro- 
ceeding criminally  againft  them  •,  and  as  they  are 
under  your  Orders  in  all  other  Refpeds,  I  think 
this  fliould  not  be  turn*d  over  to  me. 

The  Augufia  being  a  clean  Ship,  faiPd  yeftcrday 
to  cruize  on  the  Spamjh  Privateers  cruizing  on  our 
Trade  from  the  Northern  Colonies,  and  is  out  of 
the  Reach  of  any  Orders  from  me.     I  am, 
SIR, 

Boyne  in  Oimherland  -yj,^^  ^^a  Qhedient^ 

5^'°":  "::  liurnbU  Servant, 

in  the  Evening.  E.  V. 


To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

IReceiv'd  yours  of  the  2  2d  late  in  the  Evening, 
when  I  was  with  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  on  board  his 
Ship,  aad  communicated  to  him  then  Governor 
Trelawney^s  Letter  (which  you  had  returned  me) 
and  the  foul  Draught  of  my  Letter  to  you ;  and 
found  him  entirely  in  the  Opinion  of  Governor- 
I'relawney  and  me,  that  what  hi^  Excellency  pro- 
posed 


[  75  ] 
pos*d  was  much  for  his  Majefty's  Honour  and 
Service,  for  fecuring  fo  valuable  a  Trade  to  his 
Subjedls  as  that  of  the  Logwood  Trade  -,  befides 
the  Profpedt  of  opening  frefh  Branches  of  Trade 
into  the  Province  of  Guatimalay  that  may  prove 
very  beneficial  to  the  Nation. 

Governor  Trelawney,  we  think,  has  fufficiently 
^ven  his  Opinion,  by  being  the  Propofer  of  the 
Undertaking ;  and  as  we  both  agree  in  thinking 
it  right,  you  have  the  Opinion  of  the  major  Part 
of  the  Council,  that  (as  you  mention)  his  Majefly 
has  nam*d  in  his  Inftruftions. 

Finding  there  are  like  to  be  further  Delays  in 
getting  the  Tranfports  ready,  I  hope  you  will  be 
pleafed  to  order  it  fo,  that  they  may  be  ready  to  fail 
by  Monday  the  laft  of  this  Month  •,  and  I  will  delay 
the  Convoy  till  that  Time  :  "When  we  ihall  have 
the  Satisfaction  of  feeing  the  Augufi  Moon  over, 
which  has  at  different  Times  been  fatal  to  J amaicay 
three  Hurricanes  having  happen*d  on  the  28th  of 
this  Month, 

I  fent  you  early  on  Sunday  Morning  the  May 
Magazine,  as  you  defir*d  j  but  had  not  Time  for 
anfwering  your  Letter  fooner. 

I  fear,  as  you  do,  that  our  Affairs  are  not  in 
the  befl  Situation  at  home ;  and  by  what  I  can 
perceive  from  the  publick  Papers  fent  us,  it  appears 
to  me,  that  their  Expectations  at  home  are,  that 
vigorous  Proceedings  on  our  Parts  fliould  put  them 
in  a  better,  by  diftrelTuig  the  Spaniards  all  we  can 
here,  to  make  them  cry  out  for  a  Peace  at  home. 

Our  not  having  any  Publick  Letters  fincc  the 
28th  o^  February,  can't  but  give  me  fome  Uncafi- 
nefs,  as  well  as  you  -,  and  I  am  taking  all  the  Care 
I  can  to  fifh  out  for  the  earlieft  Intelligence  from 
the  French,  as  we  are  much  better  polled  here  to 
watch  all  their  Motions  than  afc  Jamaica. 

Ana 


/ 


[  76  ] 

And  as  I  defign  fending  another  Exprefs,  for 
having  his  Majelty  inform'd  of  the  Situation  of 
Affairs  here,  about  the  fame  Time  (Tuefday  the  ift 
of  September)  whether  we  hear  from  home  or  not ; 
I  give,  you  this  early  Intelligence  of  it,  defiring 
you  will  have  your  Letters  ready  againft  that 
Time.    I  am, 

Boyne.'wi  Cumberland  «/,  '  n  r\T    i' 

Harbour,  Cuba,  ^^ur  moji  Ohedietit, 

Jug.  2  3,  1741.  Humble  Servant, 

in  the  Evening.  E,  V  . 


To  Gemral  W  e  n  t  wo  r  t  h. 
SIR, 

I  Have  received  yours  of  the  28th;  and  am  glad 
to  hear  that  tjfie  Tranfports  will  foon  be  ready 
for  failing,  as  the  Convoy  has  long  been.  And 
having  fent  previous  Orders  to  Captain  Davers  to 
be  preparing  every  thing  for  their  difpatch  back  on 
our  Parts,  I  can  venture  to  anfwer  for  it,  no  Delay 
will  arife  on  our  Side  -,  and  if  Mr.  Campbell  does 
but  give  a  like  difpatch  to  your  Orders,  I  doubt 
not  but  we  fhall  foon  have  them  here  again. 

My  Sloop  has  been  to  reconnoitre  the  Coafl  be-, 
tween  this  and  the  Aquadores,  within  thefe  few 
Days,  clofe  under  the  Shore,  and  much  nearer  than 
any  Ship  can  be  ventured ;  and  found  it  all  an  Iron 
Shore,  and  no  Anchor  Ground  in  it  in  any  part ; 
fo  your  Informers  in  regard  to  any  Bay  between 
this  Place  and  that,  have  entirely  mifmformed  you. 

I  have  waited  for  the  Difpatch  of  this  Convoy, 
for  executing  perfonally  my  Intention  of  viewing 
the  Mouth  of  the  Harbour  :  Not  that  I  have  the 
the  lead  Doubt  of  the  concurrent  Teftimonies  of  fo 
many  experienced  Officers,  whofe  Reports  you  have 
ikewife  had;  but  that  I  maybe  the  better  enabled 

to 


t  77  ] 

to  give  our  Royal  Mafter  Satisfa6:ion,  in  cafe  his 
Majefty  fhould  think  it  proper  t6  alk  me  any 
Qaeftions  about  it.  But  I  intend  going  as  a  Paf- 
fenger,  without  any  Flag  flying ;  and  Ihould  be 
very  glad  if  you  would  fend  any  Officer  of  your 

Army  to  accompany  me,  except. Colonel  C- n, 

whofe  Reprefentations  made  to  you  already,  are 
not  held  by  me  en  Odeur  de  Saintete.    I  am, 

SIR,       ■■'  ' 

Soyfif,  in  Cttmherland  Hzrhovir,       ToUT  niofi  Obedient, 

Cuba,  Aug.  29,  1 741 .  '    '     ;       Humble  Servant, 

P.  S.  I  defire  you  will  be  pleafed  to  fend  your 
Letters  for  England  by  Tuefday  Morning  next,  the 
Time  appointed,  for  difpatching  an  Exprefs  with' 
ihem,  in  my  Letter  of  the  23d  Inftant. 


To  General  Wiif  TWO SLTH. 
SIR,  ^  '■'■- 

CAptain  Forreji  having  brought  me  the  annexed 
Account,  I  judge  it  for  his  Majefty*s  Service 
immediately  to  communicate  the  fame  to  you  by 
him,  not  doubting  but  you  will  take  fuiih  Meafures 
in  it,  as  you  think  will-  be  moft  conducive  to  his 
Majefly's  Service.  •  ' 

And  the  Convoy  being  juft  now  come  in  frcm^ 
England,  I  have  likewife  tranfmitted  you  by  him 
fuch  Letters  as  are  already  come  to  my  Hands  for 
you,  and  will  do  the  fame  by  any  movt  that  ima/ 
be  brought  me  for  you,    lam,  .  .:  ,  ^  ^  v.  v. 

S  I  R,         '  X''^'^-^'   'l 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Harbour,  Tour  mojl  Obedient ^    ''^ 

,  Qtka,  Jiug.  3P,  J74I.  Humbk  Servant.     '^ 

.••;//.•;.']    :•::•-:     -•  :  ■  .;£.  V. 

•  .;."->■.  ;     .  jvi\'.j>l  cm  ..  ■■ 

■;^i  L  To 


^0  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 
'  I  ''  H  E  Ships  from  England  coming  in  late  laft. 
A  Night,  gave  only  time  for  fearching  for  what 
Letters  there  might  be  for  you  :  And  finding  only 
two,  that  feemed  from  private  Hands  only,  I  fent 
you,  by  Captain  Forreji,  by  Letter  from  his  Grace 
the  Duke  of  Newcajile^  as  he  mention'd  in  it  his 
not  having  Time  to  write  to  you,  and  defired  I 
would  make  you  his  Compliments ;  with  which 
Captain  Forreft  was  difpatch'd  to  you,  together 
with  a  Letter  accompanying  the  Copy  of  a  Re- 
port he  brought  me,  of  material  Difcoveries  made 
by  his  Men,  that  I  judged  of  Importance  to  be  as 
early  as  polTible  communicated  to  you. 

After  his  being  gone  I  opened  my  other  Letters, 
and  find  thofc  of  moft  Importance  to  be  two,  (one 
of  the  23d  oi  May,  and  the  other  of  the  21ft  of 
June)  from  the  Right  Ifon.  Sir  Charles  JVager. 
And  though  they  are  writ  to  me  in  a  friendly 
Style,  as  he  has  the  Honour  of  being  of  the  Re- 
gency, and  is  judged  to  be  in  the  Secret  of  Affairs, 
I  believe  you  will  think  his  Judgment  in  thefe 
Things  pf  no  Imall  Confequence.  And  a^  I  have 
Ipng  held  his  Judgment  in  high  Efteem,  an4  think 
no  one  has  taken  more  Pains  to  be  informed  of  the 
Sipyatipp  of  Affairs  in  this  Country  ;  I  could  not 
l^ut  thipik  it  of  Confeqviepce  to  communicate  them 
XQ  ^\x  ^Moner Pgky  and  take  his  Opinion,  both 
upon  them  and  the  Reports  fent  you  by  Captain 
Forreji,  and  alfo  upon  my  pwn  Obferyations  on 
perfonally  reconnoitring  moft  Parts  of  this  exten- 
five  Harbour  and  the  Country  round  it,  and  the 
Reports  .tji^t  have  been  made  by  judicious  Officers, 
erpplpyed  for  opening  Communications  between 
the  two  Rivers,  and  frequently  paffmg  and  repaf- 
fing  them. 

.1  By 


[  79  ] 

By  thefe  it  appears  plainly  manifeft,  that  a  few 
Miles,  by  the  Bordei's  of  Open  Salinas^  there  is  an  • 
even  open  Road  for  marching  Troops,  without  the 
leaft  Apprehenfions  from  Defiles,  or  Ambufcades  i 
and  by  the  Report  fent  you,  it  is  but  three  Miles, 
by  a  very  good  Path  through  Woods  pretty  clear 
of  Underwood,  where  you  can  fee  every  Way 
about  you,  to  come  into  the  open  Savanna,  where 
they  faw  fuch  Numbefs  of  Horfes  grazing ;  and 
which,  from  the  beft  Judgment  we  can  form,  19 
the  Eaftern  Part  of  the  Savannas  where  Colonel 
Cdckran  advanced  to,  called  Guantanamo  and  Santa 
Catalina,  lying  between  the  two  Rivers,  theWeftern 
Part  being  where  he  Was,  near  the  River  you  are 
encamped  by. 

And  as  it  manifeftly  appears  to  us,  that  it  is  the 
EXpedation  of  our  Royal  Mafter,  the  Legiflature, 
and  the  Body  of  the  Nation,  that  the  utmoft  Ef- 
forts Ihould  be  exerted  in  thefe  Parts,  to  diftrefs 
the  Spaniards  wherever  we  can  ;  and  as  fo  judi- 
cious a  Perfon  as  Sir  Charles  Wager,  has  lo  plainly 
pointed  out  thefe  Parts  as  very  proper  for  it  in  his 
Apprehenfion  •, 

We  think  it  our  Duty,  in  regard  to  the  Honour 
and  Intereft  of  our  Royal  Mafter,  to  reprefent  to 
you  on  this  Occafion  (though  out  of  our  Province) 
that  it  appears  eafily  pradicable  to  us,  to  have  a 
B©dy  of  your  beft  Troops  to  undertake  the  En- 
trance into  the  Savanna  at  the  Weftern  End  of  it, 
as  above  defcribed ;   and  to  march  quite  through 
the  faid  Savanna  (the  Grafs  of  which  is  no  where 
faid  to  be  above  five  or  fix  Inches  high)  up  to  the 
former  Poft,  at  the  Houfes  by  the  River  Side,  in 
which  you  would  have  an  open  Field,   in  our  Ap- 
prehenfion, for  furprifing  and  cutting  off  any  Par- 
ties of  the  Enemy  that  may  be  lurking  there,  and 
may  make  yourfelves  again  Mafters  of  fuch  rich 
L  2  Savannas 


[  8oJ 

Savannas  full  of  Cattle  -,  and  taking  Pofl  again  at 
thofe  Houfes,  foon  open  yourfeJf  a  fecure  Commu- 
nication with  your  prefent  Camp  :  Which  would  be 
a  good  Advance  towards  diftrefling  the  Enemy,  and 
'  be  a  feafonable  Relief  to  your  own  Army,  bcfides 
the  Honour  done  to  hisMajefty'sArrhs,  that  would 
principally  redound  to  your  Credit. 

As  all  this  appears  clearly  to  us  in  the  Light  we 
have  reprefented  it  to  you,  we  flatter  ourfelves,  you 
will  receive  this  our  friendly  Advice  ft)  you,  as  the 
Refult  of  our  Zeal  for  oui:  Royal  Mafter's  Honour 
and  Service,  and  a  good  will  to  yours.  We  are, 
SIR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumb'erland  Tour  mofi  Obedient, 

Harbour,  Cuba,       -i,^.i-.-    Uumbk  Servants, 
^"S-^'>'^^''   ^  ^      ,  E.  Vernon, 

n  ./-•  C.  Ogle. 

-— — — — ..  .'j    ,.     '!     .     ■   '      >1    ..  — 

To  his  Gface  the  Duke  of  1<1  *****  *. 
My  Lord  Duke, 

MY  laft  to  your  Grace  was  of  the  29th  o^July, 
from  this  Harbour.  On  the  30th  the  Tork 
join*d  me,  with  the  Vice  Roy  of  Mexicans  Retinue 
from  Jamaica,  whom  I  had  ordcr*d  up  hither,  to 
exchange  againft  the  Prifoners  releas'd  from  St, 
Ja^o ',  but  finding  they  chofe  rather  to  be  landed 
at  Leogane  and  to  hire  a  Sloop  and  take  a  PafTage 
from  thence  to  La  Vera  Cruz,  I  immediately  clos*d 
with  their  Requell,  and  fent  them,  and  fuch  others 
as  defir'd  it,  up  thither  in  the  Tork,  judging  the 
releafing  them  there  mod  for  his  Majefty's  Service ; 
and  the  more  efpecially,  as  it  gave  me  fo  fair  a 
Pretence  for  continuing  a  watchful  Eye  on  their 
Motions.  She  fail*d  with  them  {ox  Leogane  the  ift 
of  Augufi ;  and  the  fame  Day  I  fent  my  Orders  for 
Jamaica  by  the  Firebrand  Firefhip. 


[8,] 

,,•  The  24  oiAuguJi  the  Seaborfe  came  in  here  from 
Jjcogane  -,  and  I  lend  your  Graqe  inclofed  a  Copy 
of  the  Letter  he  brought  me  from  the  Marquis 
•.^.Larnage.  .t"-iill 

,  pn  the  4th  o^  4ugufi  the  JVorceJier,  one  of  ftiy 
Cruizers,  came  in  here  with  a  Spanifh  Man  of  War, 
of  twenty-four  Guns  and  two  hundred  and  twenty 
Men,  that  failed  the  29th  of  June  froni  Port  Paf- 
fage^  with  Difpatches  for  the  Vice  Roy  of  Mexico 
as  he  fays,  which,  according  to  his  Orders,  he 
thi:ew  overrboard  before  he  was  taj^en  j  and  he  be- 
lieves he  was  to  have  return'd  with  Money.  And 
as,  probably,  he  had  likewife  Orders  for  tjie  Spaniff} 
'Admiral  Don  Rodxigo  de  Torres  at  the  Havanndf, 
.,l:his  intercepting  him,  I  hope,  may  prove  of  great 
Advantage  to  his  Majefty's  Service  >  not  only  'in 
difappointing  the  Uetum  of  the  Money  by  hiitj, 
,but  likewife  depriving  them  of  Orders  how  to  con- 
dud  then^felves.  All  the  private  Letters  mention 
her  as  a  prirne  Sailor,  and  advife  all  their  Friends 
to  come  Paflengers  in  her,  for  their  greater  Secu- 
rity, fome  mentioning  that  fhe  has  failed  five 
Leagues  in  an  Hour.  And  I  find  by  others,  Ihe 
was  the  Privateer  that  took  our  two  'Turkg  Ships  i|i 
the  Channel,  and  that  the  Crown  of  Spain  bought 
her  for  this  Service,  on  her  being  reported  fo  good 
a  Sailor.  Bat  God's  good  Providence  made  us  a 
Prefent  of  her,  our  Ship  having  a  Gale  of  Wind 
to  run  up  with  her,  when  flie  lay  becalmed  under 
Cape  Nicoloa.  On  the  5th  I  difpatch'd  the  IVur- 
cejler  to  Sea  to  her  former  Station. 

On  the  9th  arrived  here  the  Deptford  z.nd  JEma 
Firefhip,  with  a  Vidualler,  v/ith  Wine  and  Oil  for 
the  Fleer,  from  Gibraltar  •,  but  the  Wine  is  very  in- 
different, and  I  fliall  order  the  imnx-diate  ifTuinc: 
of  It,  to  prevent  more  of  it  from  decaying,  fomc 
being  quite  decayed  already. 

By 


[    S2    ] 

By  the  Deptford  I  had  a  Letter  from  Captain 
yohn  ^revor^  of  the  Defiance,  of  his  having  taken, 
off  Rio  la  Hacha,  a  Ship  under  French  Colours,  of 
three  hundred  and  fifty  Tons,  twelve  Guns,  and 
fifty  Men,  called  the  Providence,  laden  with  Beef, 
Pork,  Flour,  Brandy,  Wine,  Bar  Iron,  and  fome 
dry  Goods,  bound  for  Carthagena  ;  which  he 
fuppofes  to  be  one.  of  their  Regifter  Ships  from 
CadiT;.  'i  '^''"^  ' 

On  the  i2th  the  iJ«^>w  eame  in'  that  had  the 
Blacks  on  board,  which  were  caft^away  in  the  Ver.e 
Pink.  ^  ^'^i'^-'  «-'"      '     i   ■^^'^*  ^■^  Eiv/-5n  c.^---: 

'•  And  1  ani  cohcb^ned,  that  I  arh  how  obliged, 
»from  the  different  SenViments  of  the  Officers  in  his 
Majefty's  Sea  and  Land  Service,  to  tranfinit  your 
'6race  Copies  of  all  that  has  pafTed  fince  my  lafV, 
rthat  the  whole  may  clearly  appear,  for  his  Majefly 
tb  form  his  Judgment  on  ;  as  I  think  this  is  the 
fairefl  way  of  laying  thefe  different  Sentiments  be- 
fore your  Grace,  for  our  Rc^l  Mafl:er*s  Infor- 
mation. ^}^  •:'• 

I  iliall  only  mention  Here^-'that  I  mufl  begin 
with  a  Copy  of  what  I  willingly  omitted  fending 
in  my  lafl,  but  which  is  now  become  nectffary,  be- 
ing a  Copy  of  a  joint  Letter  from  me  and  Sir  Chti- 
loner  Ogle  to  General  Wentworih,  of  the  23d  of 
July,  1 74 1. 

A  Letter  from  General  Wentw$rtb  to  me  of  the 
24th  oijuly,  1 74 1. 

Another,  o^  July /^i,  1741. 

Another,  of  Augu^  i,  1741. 

A  long  Letter  from  me  to  General  Wentvmrth^ 
o^  Auguft  2,  1741. 

Two  other  Letters  from  me,  of  Augufi  5,  1741. 

A  Letter  from  General  Wentworth  to  me,  of 
Auguji  5,  1 741. 

A  joint 


[  83  ] 

A  joint  Letter  from  me  and  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle 
to  General  Wentwortb,  (with  a  Copy  of  a  Letter 
from  Mr.  Toler  to  me)  of  Augufi  6.   1741. 

A  Letter  from  General  Wentworth  to  me,  (inclo- 
fjng  a  Copy  of  the  Refolution  of  their  Council  of 
War  of  the  8th)  oi  Auguft  9,  1741.  . 

A  joint  Letter  from  me  and  Sir  Chaloner  Oglt 
to  GtntnH  fFeniivorfb,  of  Augufi  10,  1741. 

A  Letter  from  General  Wentworth  to  me,  of 
Auguji  II,  1 741. 

A  joint  Letter  from  me  and  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle 
to  the  General,  of  Augufi  12,  1741. 

On  the  i3tb  of  Auguji  I  fummoned  a  General 
Council  of  War  onboard  the F^«^;/«j  Firefliip,  in 
the  River  Augujia,  as  the  General  had  denred ; 
where  I  had  firft  read  by  the  Secretary,  as  Intelli- 
gence received  fince  our  laft  General  Council  of 
War, 

A  Declaration  ot  Miguel  Perez,  Captain  of  a 
Sloop  from  St.  JagOy  and  a  Refident  there,  of 
Auguji  II,  1741. 

A  Declaration  of  Manuel  de  la  CruZy  a  free  Ne- 

groe,  and  Refident  of  St.Jago,  oi  Auguji  12,  1741. 

Captain  Allen*s  Account  of  what  pafled  at  Mar* 

quefs  de  Larnage's  Table  at  Leogane,  of  Auguji  12, 

1741. 

Captain  Chamher*s  Report  and  Qbfervations  oa 
his  Cruize  off  St.  7^^^,  of  Auguji  11^  1741. 

Mr.  T^y/^r's  Letter  to  me,  of  Auguji  7,  1741. 

Mr.  Macneiil*s  Remarks  on  the  Roads  betweeiv 
the  General's  Camp  and  Guanianamp,  of  Auguji  1 3, 
1741. 

Lieutenant  Sturm's  Account  of  his  March  from 
the  Camp,  between  the  25th  of  July  and  the  4th 
of  Au^uh-t  1 74 1. 

Lieutenant  il^«;/Z>^r*s' Journal  between  the  6th 
;jnd  I2th  of  .^//g«/?,  1741. 

Copies 


Goples  of  all  which,  but  Captain  C/&^»;^^j*s  Re- 
port and  Lieutenant  howther*s,  Journal,  I  delivered 
the  General. 

After  which,  I  obferved  to  the  Council  of  War, 
that  Capt.  Perezes,  and  Manuel  de  la  Cruz*s  Accounts, 
were  a  full  Proof  of  what  Drake^  the  Guide,  had 
afferted,  of  the  Conveniencies  to  be  found  in  the 
Road  from  the  Village  to  St.  Jago ;  and  that  the 
Governor  of  St.  y^^c's  Letters  were  likewife  a  full 
Proof  he  had  not  erred  in  his  Account  of  the  Dif-- 
tance ;  and  Experience  fhewed,  he  had  been  right 
in  his  Accounts  to  the  Village  :  And  that,  though 
tjie  Refolutions  charged  him  with  an  Error  in  the 
Road  between  the  Village  and  St.  Jago,  it  had  ap-; 

jieared  that  Colonel  C n  (on  whole  Report  they^ 

were  faid  to  be  principally  founded)  had  never 
advanced  himfelf  even  fb  far  as  the  Village  •,  fo 
that  his  could  only  be  Reports  at  fecond  hand, 
from  Spani/h  Prifoners.  And  I  obferved,  that  their 
faid  Refolutions  went  no  farther  than  declaring, 
"  they  thought  it  imprafticable  to  advance  further 
"  into  the  Country  :"  Which,  I  thought,  left  the 
latter  part  of  our  unanimous  general  Refolution 
ftill  in  its  firft  Force,  1)1%.  "  to  get  up  to  the  Vil- ' 
**  lage  of  Santa  Catalina  with  the  utmoft  Expedi-, 
'•^  tion,  and  at  all  Events  to  fecure  that,  and  -a^ 
*'  Communication  with  this  Harbour,  as  a  probable 
"  Foundation  for  fecuring  a  Footing  in  this  Ifland, 
"  for  waiting  for  further  Succours  to  enable  them 
"  to  compleat  the  Redudion  of  it ;"  which,  as 
they  had  yet  refolved  nothing  againfl  it,  we  could 
not  but  hope  they  would  flill  purfue.  And  I  added, 
that,  for  my  part,  though  I  found  their  Council  of 
War  had  been  in  another  Sentiment,  I  Ihould  die^ 
in  the  Opinion,  that  a  thoufand  chofen  Men,  with, 
a  thoufand  Blacks  to  have .  carried  Provifions  for 
thenn,  might  in  three  Days  hav^  i^(}v^nged,  to  try 


[  85  ] 

if  Itirprlfing  the  EJirellaznd  Santa  CatalinaB^ttcrlci^ 
Were  pra<Slicable  j  and  had  fufficient  Time  and  Pro- 
vifipns  for  their  Retreat,  if  they  had  found  it  other- 
wife  :  By  which  the  Fate  of  St.  Jago  might,  in  my 
Apprehenfion,  have  been  determined  long  before 
now.  But  I  did  not  pretend  to  advance  my  Opi- 
nion for  a  Rule  to  theirs,  which  I  hoped,  for  their 
Sakes,  they  might  be  right  in,  though  it  appeared 
quite  otherwife  to  us  of  the  Sea. 

And  as  his  Majefty's  Inftrudions  gave  us  no  Au- 
thority to  deliberate  in  what  Manner  they  were  to 
a(5t  by  Land,  after  foggefting  our  Thoughts,  art! 
kaving  with  them  Copies  of  the  new  Evidence  we 
had  produced*  we  could  only^exhort  them  to  what 
they  had  declared  an  equal  Inclination  for ;  to  do 
the  utmofl  in  their  Power  for  his  Majefly's  Ho- 
nour and  Service ;  which  they  afTured  us,  was  their 
Intention ;  and  we  then  civilly  feparated,  without 
thinking  any  new  Refolutions  necelTary  to ,  be 
formed. 

Capt.  Chamhers*s  Report  and  Obfervations,  and 
Lieutenant  Lowthcr'%  Journal,  that  were  read  at  the 
Council  of  War,  I  fent  Copies  of  to  the  General 
on  the  15th  oi  Auguji^  not  having  had  Time  for 
having  them  copied  fooncr. 

The  14th  at  Night  anchor'd  in  the  Harbour's 
Mouth  the  Tork  from  Leogane  :  And  I  fend  your 
Grace  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  Letter  I  received  by 
her  from  the  Marquefs  de  Lamage ;  and  finding 
they  are  expeding  Advices  of  a  general  War,  1 
Ihall  embrace  the  Opportunity  I  have,  of  fending 
a  French  Sailor  he  has  demanded,  by  Capt.  Hervey 
of  the  Superbe^  to  continue  keeping  an  Eye  on  their 
Motions,  and  endeavour  at  obtaining  the  earliejft 
Advices  from  thence. 

I  fend  your  Grace  like  wife  inclofed.  Copies  of  a 
Letter  from  the  General  of  the  isth,  acquainting 

M  me 


[86] 

me  Captain  Hopkins  had  his  Difpatches  ready  to 
proceed  to  North  America ;  and  of  one  from  me  to 
the  General,  of  the  i4thi  with  the  Information  in- 

clofed  relating  to  Colonel  C- n.     And  Captain 

Allen  advifing  me  on  the  15th  in  the  Morning, 
that  the  Officers  were  come  on  board  with  the  Ge- 
nerals Letters,  I  ordered  him  to  put  to  Sea  (pur- 
fuant  to  my  former  Orders)  for  New  Tork,  as  foon 
as  the  Sea  Breeze  came  in ;  and  he  put  to  Sea  the 
i^th  o^  Auguji  in  the  Morning  accordingly. 
♦The  1 6th  I  detached  Captain  Cotes  in  the  Tork^ 
to  fupply  the  Station  off  Rio  la  Hacba,  left  by  Capt. 
Trevor  on  taking  the  Regifter  Ship  from  St.  Se^ 
hajiianh.  This  Ship  proves  to  have  Cloathing  and 
Provifibns  for  Don  Rodrigo  de  Torres'?,  Squadron, 
and  Iron  Work  for  Ships  which  they  are  building 
a;t  the  Havanna^  and  will  turn  out  a  rich  Prize ; 
and  all  the  Spanijh  Papers  were  found  concealed  in 
a  Beam  of  the  Ship,  hollowed  for  that  purpofe. 

On  the  1 7th  I  detached  the  Superbe,  Capt.  Hervey^ 
to  Sea  for  Leogane^  (as  I  mentioned  my  Intentions) 
principally  to  keep  a  watchful  Eye  on  our  Neigh- 
bours at  this  critical  Juncture.  And  I  fend  your 
Grace  incloied  Copies  of  a  Letter  from  me  to  the 
General,  jof  the  iahle  Date,  informing  him  how 
far  I  had  found  the  River  navigable  for  Boats  above 
his  Camp  ;  as  hkewife  of  one  I  received  from  him, 
l)f  the  fame  Date,  and  my  Anfwer  to  it  of  the 
1 8th  i  with  one  from  him  of  the  fame  D^te,  which 
I  thought  proper  to  add,  to  ihew  we  have  pre- 
ferved  a  civil  Correfpondence,  agreeable  to  his  Ma- 
jelly's  Inftruftions,  though  we  have  happen*d  fo 
widely  to  differ  in  our  Sentiments  on  the  Execution 
of  them.  And  not  to  tire  your  Grace,  I  'fhall 
ChOofe  to'ftop  from  giving  you  any  further  Copies 
IDf  our  Letters,  as  judging  thefewill  be  fufficient  for 
'exj)Iaining  our  different  jScntiments,  for  the  prefent. 

The 


1 87  ] 

The  Augufia  came  in  with  three  Tranfports  from 
Port  Roy m  thQ  1 8  th,  and  in  them  aReeruit  of  two 
hundred  and  fifty- fix  Men  for  the  Army;  and  as 
Ihe  is  a  clean  Ship,  I  difpatch  her  to  Sea,  tq  try  if 
we  cannot  dcftroy  the  Spanijh  Privateers  that  cruize 
on  our'Traxle  from  the  Northern  Colonies,  from 
Port  Franfois,  where  they  fit  put  to  cruize  on  us  j 
— — no  vej-y  friendly  ^6t  o^  our  Neighbours  to 
permit  them  to  do  lb  !  ;  '-^  M.>»>;>i4u3  i^jnic^d  :i:i-VA 

And  Lieatenant  Hodgpm^iWm^ beeA  difpatchM 
hjthef*  in  the  Augufta^  with  Letters  for  the  Ge- 
neral iirid  ^'ijne,  from  his  Excellency  Governor  Trt- 
/^Z£;«^_y ;  I  thought  it  neceffary  to  fend  your  Grace 
inclofed  (as  I  have  done)  a  Copy  of  Governor 
*l!relawnefi\JtXXtr  to- me,  of  the  27th  oijulyy 
together  with  a  Copy  of  my  Letter  to  General 
Wentwotth  (on  fending  him  inclofed  my  Letter 
from  Governor  l^relu'voney -y)  General  Wentworth*s. 
Anfwer  to  that  Letter,  of  the  2  2d  of  Augujl ;  and 
my  Reply  to  him  of  the  23^d  oi  Auguft^  after  ha- 
ying advis*d  with  Sir  Chahner  Ogle  upon  it.' 

I  have  thrown  up  a  little  Fort,  with  a  wet  Ditch 
about  it,  and  fix*d  fome  of  our  Patereroes  in  it, 
for  covering  our  Boats  in  their  watering,  at  the 
River  r  water  my  Ships  from  ;  and  have  open'd 
Views  thro*  all  the  Woods  about  it.  And  I  am 
now  going  to  cut  Timber  for  Platforms  for  a 
Fafcine  Battery,  that  I  have  projeded  for  defend- 
ing the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour,  finding  we  can 
have  no  Supply  of  Stores  from  the  Army  Ordnance 
Stores ;  and  by  the  Help  of  Lieut.  Innes^  one  0^ 
our  Sea  Engineers,  all  is  projefted  for  it.  But  I 
Ihall  delay  Execution  (further  than  preparing  Ma- 
terials ;)  as  judging,  if  Advices  fhould  arrive  of  a 
French  War,  I  fhould  be  of  Opinion  for  moving 
that  Way  without  a  Moment*s  Lofs  of  Time  * 
which  we  are  admirably  well  polled  for.  • 

M  2  By 


[  88  ] 

By  a  Tempeft  of  Thunder  and  Lightning,  finde 
our  being  here,  the  Prince  of  Orange  (one  of  my 
feventy-gun  Ships)  had  her  Fore-top-maft  cut  in 
two,  and  her  Fore-maft  fo  Ihiver'd  as  to  be  unfer- 
viceable  :  But  we  have  patch'd  her  up,  for  the 
prefent,  with  Jury  Mafts,  and,  I  thank  God,  have 
met  with  no  other  Accident  here  ;  and  this  Augufi 
Moon  being  ended,  I  think  we  are  paft  the  mdil 
dangerous  Part  of  the  Scafon  for  Hurricanes. 

I  make  no  Doubt  but  even  our  remaining  here 
puts  the  Enemy  to  great  Expences,  as  probably 
they  are  drawing  Troops  from  the  Havanna  to 
St.  Jago^  which  we  are  not  much  above  the  Tythe 
of  the  Diflance  from  that  they  are ;  and  it  may 
even  prove  an  Obftrudtion  to  Don  Rodrigo  de 
Torres* s  leaving  the  Ha<vanna  for  Europe.,  if  he 
fhould  have  had  any  fuch  Orders  :  And  if  he 
thinks  proper  to  come  here,  he  Ihall  be  heartily 
Welcome,  as  I  think  myfelf  well  pofted  to  re- 
ceive him. 

General  Wentworth.,  I  doubt  not,  has  acquainted 
your  Grace  with  the  Purport  of  his  Letters  to  the 
Governors  of  the  Northern  Colonies,  which  he  has 
not  communicated  to  me  :  But  as  I  gave  him 
early  Notice  to  be  preparing  his  Difpatches,  I  am 
perfwaded  you  will  have  al!  Particulars  from  him. 

As  I  judg*d  it  for  his  Majefty's  Service  to  fend 
your  Grace  frequent  Accounts  of  our  Situation,  in 
the  prefent  Conjun<5lure,  I  determin'd,  on  closing 
my  Letter  with  this  Month  of  jiugufi.,  to  forward 
them  to  your  Grace  by  one  of  my  Firefhips,  Capt. 
Boyce^  and  to  fend,  with  this,  the  Duplicate  of 
my  laft  Letter  to  your  Grace  of  the  29th  of  July 
.  from  this  Harbour. 

The  Convoy  is  to  fail  from  hence  with  the 
cjear'd  Tranfports,  for  our  Supplies  of  Proviflons 

from 


,      [  89  ] 

fcomjamaka,  on  the  ift  or  2d  of  September ^  as 

they  Ihall  be  ready. 

And  wifhing  thefe  Accounts  a  Ipeedy  Arrival 

to  your  Grace's  Hands,  and  that  I  may  foon  have 

the  Pleafure  of  hearing  from   you,   as  the  beft 

puidance  fof  our  future  Condud:  j  I  am, 

*^^^:,',    ■,^.  ^:^y      My  Lord  Duke, 

Voyntf  in  Gtniherland     Xour  Grace* S  ffioft 
^^n^ahh^f]         Z)n;e^/^^,  and  mofi 
on  the  South  Side  of  Ohsdient,  Humble  Servant, 

Cuba,  4ug.  JO,  1 74 1 .  E.  _ Yl 


To  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  ^  *****  *, 
My  Lord  Duke, 

SINCE  clofmg  my  Letter  to  your  Grace  of  the 
30th  o^Auguft^  the  Tilbury,  one  of  my  Cruizers 
on  the  South  Side  oi  Hifpaniola,  having  met  the 
Convoy  coming  with  our  Storefhip  and  Viduallers, 
has  brought  a  Part  of  them  in  here,  purfuant  to 
my  Orders.  By  which  Occafion  I  have  the  Favour 
of  your  Grace's  Letter  of  the  24th  of  May,  from 
Claremont ;  and  am  extremely  obhg'd  to  your 
Grace,  and  all  my  Lords  Juftices,  for  the  obliging 
J^oticc  they  h^ve  taken  of  my  Endeavours  faith- 
fully and  diligently  to  difcharge  my  Duty  to  hit 
Majefly,  to  the  beft  of  my  Ability.  And  1  beg 
you  to  aflure  their  Excellencies,  I  fliall,  on  all  Oct 
cafions,  ftudy  to  deferve  tlie  very  favourable  Opinion 
they  have  conceived  of  me  •,  tho',  I  am  very  fcn- 
fiblc,  I  am  more  indebted  for  that  to  their  Ex- 
cellencies favourable  Acceptance  of  my  Service, 
than  to  my  own  Abihties. 

I  am  greatly  a  Debtor  to  your  Grace's  favourable 
Opinion,  of  my  being  beft  enabled  to  fcrve  his 
Majefty  in  thefe  Seas.  But  were  my  Abilities  as 
great  as  your  Grace's  Friendfhip  for  me  inclines 

you 


{  9®  }      , 

you  to  Imagine  t^ein,  vain  muft  be  all  my  At- 
tempts, if  unequally  yoked  to  fuch  as  are  to  con- 
tribute to  the  Execution  of  them. 

The  mapy  Lettqrs  I  feve  formerly,  and  now 
^hink  ipyfejf  QUig*d  to  tranfmit  to  your  Grace, 
will  fully  explain  this  to  you  :  And  I  aflure.your 
Grace,  no  Man  in  Britain,  tho'  not  acquainted 
with  Lord  Cathcart  but  in  his  general  Charadlc^ 
more  fincerely  mourns  the  JLcSTs  his  Majefty's  Ser- 
vice had  in  him.  For  tho'  I  believe  my  Collegue 
may  be  an  honefl:,  well-meaning  Gentleman,  no- 
thing has  appear*d  to  me,  to  fet  him  in  the  Light 
of  an  experienc'd  General.  And  all  his  Counfellors 
have  appear'd  .to  me  to  be  actuated  by  fuch  general 
Principles,  as  ferve  to  manifeft  to  me  their  Diipo- 
fition  to  returning  home,  and  fearing  to  furpil^i 
Occafions  for  their  longer  Refidence  here,  to  be  i 
governing  Principle  with  them. 

Sir  Charles  Wager  having  honour'd  rne  with  two 
private  Letters,  in  which  I  found  my ielf  happily 
4n  the  fame  Sentiments  with  him,  I  confqlted  Sir 
Chaloner  Ogle  upon  them,  wjiofe  Sentiments  and 
jfnine  have  happily  concurr'd  in  every  Thing  :  And 
for  a  laft  Effort,  I  fend  your  Grace  a  Copy  of  the 
joint  Letter,  which  we  thought  it  for  his  Majefty's 
Service  to  write  to  Mr.  Wentworth,  the  31ft  of 
Anguft,  when  I  fent  him  Sir  Charles  Wage  f&  Let- 
ters to  perufe,  by  Capt.  Watfon  (my  Captain;)  who 
brought  his  Thanks  in  return  for  that  Civility. 
And  I  flatter  myfelf  Sir  Charles  will  be  fo  good  as 
to  excufe  it,  from  a  Perfwafion  that  his  Majefty's 
Service  was  my  only  Motive  in  it. 

Now  I  have  open*d  to  your  Grace  what  lies 
Jieavieft  on  my  Mind,  I  muil  add,  I  am  under  a 
Promife  to  the  beft  of  Wives,  to  return  to  her 
as  foon  as  I  could  ;  and  the  Hurry  I  left  England 
in,   your  Grace  may  eafily  imagine,   ipakes  my 

Return 


Return  neceltary  for  my  private  Affiurs ;  befidei 
the  realbnable  Hopes  I  might  entertain,  of  having 
a  Relief  from  the  labouring  Oar,  as  we  fay  at  Sea:. 
But  when  I  have  laid  this  before  your  Grace*  t§ 
juftify  my  R&queft  for  being  reliev*d,  I  beg  Leave 
to  add,  that  the  Service  of  his  Majefly  and  rhy 
Country,  will,  I  hope  (as  they  always  ought)  be 
the  reigning  Principles  in  my  Breaft  :  And  re- 
ferring the  above  Confideratibns  to  my  Lords  Juf- 
tices  Prudence,  they  will  always  find  in  me  a  wiiw 
ling  Mind,  to  conform  to  whatever  theyjudge  moft 
for  his  Majefly's  Honour  and  Service. 

To  manifeft  hbw  frivolous  their  Pretences  of 
Defiles  and  Ambufcades  have  been,  I  am  glad  I 
can  acquaint  your  Grace,  before  I  clofe  this  Letter, 
that  Capt.  Burward  of  fFblfe's  Grenadiers,  that  Was 
fent  out  with  a  Party  only  of  one  hundred  Soldiers 
and  fifty  Blacks,  advanced  again  to  the  Houfes 
they  deferted  at  Guantanamo ;  when  the  Spanijh 
Guard  there  all  fled  before  them,  left  their  Papers 
Tupon  the  Table,  and  forty  Cattle  jJenn'd  ;  ahd  h6 
brought  in  with  him  feven  Horfes  atcouti^ed,  an4 
fome  of  the  Calves,  as  they  could  not  drive  th6 
reft.  So  I  hope  they  will  be  encouraged  to  heart^ 
Grace,  and  return  to  fecure  that  Ppli  at  feaft,  iii 
an  open  Country,  wnere  they  olnnot  be  furpri^'d, 
their  Numbef-s,  with  the  Blacks,  beitlg  above  fouir 
thoufand  and  three  hundred  Men. 
^  I  have  difpatch'd  the  Convoy  to  Jamaica  t6 
bring  a  Supply  of  Provifions  to  the  Army,  and 
have  fecur'd  a  Part  of  the  Viduallers  from  En^dnk 
here,  to  prevent  the  Danger  of  wanting  any  from 
a  Delay  in  their  Return.  And  as  foon  as  I  havfe 
difpatch*d  my  Letters  away  for  yoiir  Gradr,  b|^ 
Capt.  Boyce^  in  the  JEtna  Firefhip  (Capt.  Barnard 
not  returning  in  Time)  I  will  flip  out  to  recon- 
jiojtre  the  Entrance  into  tlie  HarboUt  of  St.  Jap> 

myfcif. 


t9i] 

myfelf,  in  the  Orford^  Capt.  Mayne ;  buf  Hiall  Icare 
my  Flag  flying  here,  and  the  Squadron  under  Sir 
Chaloner  Ogle's  Command,  in  my  Abfence.    I  am. 

Soy.,,  in  Cumberland    -^  ^^^^  ^«^^> 

Harbour  (formerly       Tour  Grace's  moft 

call'd  Walthenam)  "Devoted,  and  moji 

on  the  South  Side  of  Obedient,  Humble  Servant, 

Cuba,Sept.z,i-j^\.  ^     ^ 

P.  S.   Lieut.  Rich  is  gone  home  in  the  Primefs 
Amelia,  at  his  own  Requeft. 


1^0  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

Y  OURS  of  the  I  ft  Inftant  (owning  the  Re- 
*  ceipt  of  mine  of  the  30th  of  Augufi,  and  of  a 
joint  Letter  from  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  and  me,  of  the 
31ft  of  Augufi)  was  brought  to  my  Hands  laft 
Night ;  and  having  communicated  it  to  Sir  Chaloner 
this  Morning,  and  advis'd  with  him  upon  it ; 

We  heartily  congratulate  you  on  the  Succefs  bf 
Capt.  Burward,  with  his  Party  fent  to  Guantanamo, 
And  as  you  fee,  tiio'  fo  long  after  that  Poft  being 
deferted,  he  met  neither  Ambufcades  nor  Enemies, 
to  take  Advantage  from  any  Defiles,  we  hope  you 
will  not  think  them  well  founded  Objeftions ;  and 
that  you  will  think  that  Poft  ought  to  be  regain'd 
and  maintain'd,  and  the  Village  too,  with  fuch  due 
Care  and  Precaution  as  your  Experience  leads  you 
to  judge  necelTary ;  for  this  very  good  Reafon,  in 
our  Apprehenfion,  that  your  maintaining  yourfelves 
at  theVillage,  is  cutting  off  all  the  Communication, 
at  once,  between  St.  J  ago  and  Baraccoa,  and,  in  our 
Apprehenfions,  fccuring  us  the  PolTeflion  of  the 
whole  Eaft  End  of  the  Ifland.  And  this  feems  to 
us  to  be  the  more  neceflary,  as  you  fay  their  Let- 
ters 


[grl 

ters  mention  the  Reinforcement  they  are  fending 
frem  the  Havanna,  being  intended  to  be  feot  firft 
by  PerioFoes  to  Barraccoa.     We  arc, 

SIR, 
Qtmberland  Harbour,  XouT  moft  Ohedietity 

Seft.i,\T\i.  Humble  Servants, 

E.  Vernon, 

C.  OCLE. 


2*<?  «$»  Ch  A  L  O  N  E  R  Og  L  E. 

TH  O*  the  Reports  made  to  us  by  feveral  ex- 
perienced Officers,  fully  convinced  us  both, 
of  the  Impradlicubility  of  forcing  a  Paflage  into  a 
Harbour  of  fo  narrow  an  Entrance  as  St.  J^go, 
unlefs  the  Batteries  lying  above  the  Morro  Caftle 
had  been  firft  furpriz'd  and  taken  ; 

Which,  I  apprehend,  would  have  been  an  eafy 
Matter,  if  the  Attempt  had  by  Mr.  Wentworth  and 
his  Council  been  thought  proper  to  be  undertaken 
on  our  firft  Arrival  here,  as  I  fhall  always  think^it 
ought  to  have  been  : 

Yet,  under  a  Concern  for  having  fo  little  done 
where  nothing  has  appear*d  to  oppofe  the  Progrefs 
of  fo  large  a  Force  as  has  been  landed  here,  I  have 
determin*d,  on  this  my  firft  Leifure  for  it,  to  go 
myfelf  to  view  the  Entrance  into  the  faid  Har- 
bour i  that,  from  my  own  Obfervations,  I  may  be 
the  better  enabled  to  inform  our  Royal  Maftcr  in 
all  Particulars. 

And  yoy  are  hereby  required  and  dire(5ted,  to 
take  upon  you  the  Charge  and  Command  of  all 
his  Majefty*s  Ships  in  this  Harbour,  during  my 
Abfence,  and  until  my  Return,  which  fhall  be  with 
sdl  pofTible  Expedition. 

N  And 


[94] 

And  as  by  our  laft  Advices  it  feems  moft  pro- 
bable, our  Orders  may  be  for  Eftablifhing  ourfelves 
on  this  Ifland,  and  pufhing  on  the  Succefs  of  his 
Majefty's  Arms  with  the  utmoft  Vigour  ; 

You  will  give  all  the  neceflary  Orders,  for  fup- 
plying  Capt.  Rentone  with  the  Sawyers  and  Car- 
penters he  may  ftand  in  Need  of,  for  preparing 
the  Timber  for  the  Batteries  on  the  projedbed 
Works  on  the  Point,  for  defending  the  Entrance 
of  the  Harbour  :  And  alfo  for  fupplying  Lieut. 
Innes  with  fuch  a  Number  of  proper  Workmen  as 
can  be  found  in  our  Ships,  for  the  cutting  and 
preparing  Picquets  and  Falcines  for  the  faid  Work : 
Giving  the  flridlefl  Orders  for  the  Prefervation  of 
the  Men's  Healths,  that  no  Work  be  carried  on  of 
any  Kind  when  there  is  no  Breeze,  and  that  only 
fuch  a  moderate  Number  of  Hands  be  employ'd  at 
a  Time,  as  can  be  lodg*d  and  ihelter'd  in  the  two 
Houfcs  ereded  for  that  Purpofej  that  Sicknefs 
may  not  be  introduced  amongft  our  Men  through 
Want  of  a  due  Care  of  them. 

And  for  the  Encouragement  of  thofe  employ'd, 
let  them  know,  a  moderate  Allowance  will  be  paid 
them  for  their  Labour  •,  which,  when  exercis'd 
with  Prudence,  is  found  rather  contributing  to 
their  Health  than  otherwife. 

In  all  other  Events  that  may  happen,  you  will 
govern  yourfelf  by  your  approved  Experience,  to 
the  befl  of  your  Judgement,  for  his  Majefty's 
Service.     For,  i^c.  ^ 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne,  \  in  Cumberland  Har- 
bour (formerly  call'd  Walthmam)  on  the  South 
SideofC«^«,  this  3d  of  iS^^/^w^^r,  1741. 


\ 


[95 

sr<?  General  Wentworth. 

I  Received  yours  of  the  2ifl:  of  Septemher,  this 
Morning  \  in  which  you  acknowledge  the  Re- 
ceipt of  the  joint  Letter  from  me  and  Sir  Chalonet 
Ogkj  of  the  3d  of  September. 

I  find.  Sir,  you  take  fome  Exception  to  an  Ex* 
preffion  there,  of  deferting  a  Poft,  as  having  a  dif- 
ferent Senfe  from  leaving  a  Poji :  But  I  believe  you 
will  agree  they  both  mean  the  fame  Thing,  that 
the  Poft  is  leff^  or  abandon* d^  which  I  Ihall  always 
think  might  have  been  maintain'd.  And  had  the 
Poft  at  the  Village  been  fo  too,  as  that  is,  by  all  Ac- 
counts, the  only  Village  there  is  in  the  Road  between 
St.  J  ago  and  Barraccoa,  it  is  reafonable  to  think 
you  would  thereby  have  cut  off  the  Communication 
between  St.  Jago  and  Barraccoa^  and,  of  Courfe, 
been  Mafters  of  this  Eaftern  End  of  the  Ifland, 
and  had,  at  leaft,  the  plentiful  Plains  of  GuantanamOy 
to  haye  furnifliM  Cattle  for  fupplying  your  Army 
with  frefti  Provifions.  And  beyond  the  faid  Vil- 
lage, there  are  faid  to  lie  the  much  more  extenfivs 
Savannas  of  Santa  Catalina,  full  of  Black  Cattle, 
and  where  they  milk  tlieir  Cows  and  makeCheefe, 
I  confefs  the  abandoning  Guantanamo  gave  me 
great  Uneafinefs ;  but  it  was  only  from  a  juft  Con- 
cern for  the  Honour  of  our  Royal  Mafter*s  Service. 

And  I  do  think,   if  Col.  C -n  had  no  Orders 

for  abandoning  that  Poft,  that  he  will  be  hardly 
able  to  juftify  that  Condud  to  have  been  for.  iiis 
Majefty*s  Honour  and  Service.  I'  ,.-l^^^•'■v 

I  have  put  your  Spanijh  Letters  into  the  Hands 
of  my  Tranflator,  to  fee  what  can  l^e  learnt  ih)m 
them  Material.  .,:    -  ."' 

I  cannot  think  of  appointing  any  Convoy,  fof 
any  Part  of  tlie  Negroes  being  fent  back  to  Ja- 
maica^ till,  previoufly,  a  Council  of  War  may  have 
N  2  i"dg*d 


[96] 

iudg'd  it  for  his  Majefty's  Service  that  it  fliould 
be  fo. 

But  whenever  you  and  Brigadier  Blakeney  defire 
a  Council  of  War  to  be  held,  for  confidering  of 
Governor  Trelawney^s  Propofal,  for  detaching  an 
hundred  Americans  to  Rjitan  Ifland,  it  Ihall  be  held 
when  and  where  you  may  defire  •,  as  I  know  Sir 
Chaloner  Ogle  will  be  willing  to  oblige  you,  in 
meeting  on  board  the  Firelhip  in  the  River,  which 
he  thinks  he  can  venture  to  do. 

I  beg  the  Favour  of  you,  Sir,  there  may  be  no 
Communication  between  us  for  the  future  by  Mef- 
fage,  bat  by  Letter ;  which  will  be  the  belt  Record 
of  what  palils  between  us  :  But  if,  by  any  Hurry, 
an  Aid  de  Camp  fhould  come  with  a  Meflage,  I 
am  determin'd,  for  the  future,  he  fhali  put  that 
Meflage  in  Writing,  and  fign  his  Name  to  it : 
And  I  will  return  my  Anfwer,  in  like  Manner,  in 
Writing.    I  am, 

S     I    Ry 

Boyne,  in  CumberlandHzxhonr,      ToUV  moji  Obedient^ 

September  zzy  1 741.                  Humhk  Servant, 
E.  V. 

To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

I  Received  a  Letter  from  you  without  Date  laft 
Night,  acquainting  me,  that  you  and  Brigadier 
Blakeney  would  be  on  board  the  Firefhip  by  Eight 
o* Clock  to-morrow  Morning,  for  taking  into  Con- 
fideration  the  Propofal  made  by  his  Excellency  Go- 
vernor Trelawney,  for  fending  an  hundred  Americans 
to  Ratan  Ifland. 

Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  and  I  will  not  fail  of  being 

there  to  meet  you,  to  take  the  fame  into  mature 

Confideration  in  a  regular  Confultation  ;    though 

you  are  very  well  informed  of  our  Opinions  con- 

iiL'o'J*  '  -     curring 


[  97  ] 

curring  with  Governor  Tre!awney*s  already :  And  we 
fhall  be  ready  to  take  into  Confideration  any  other 
Matter  that  you  judge  it  for  his  Majefty's  Service 
to  have  our  Opinions  on.  ..   j. 

As  to  your  inclofed  Memorial  from  Captain 
Pepper,  I  have  to  acquaint  you,  that  in  the  Re- 
doubt I  had  raifed  for  fecuring  our  Boats  in  the 
Watering  our  Ships  at  the  River,  I  ordered  Capt, 
Rentone^  who  commanded  in  the  upper  Part  of  the 
Harbour,  to  put, a  fmall  Garrifon  in  it  of  a  Serjeant 
and  twelve  Men,  and  four  Seamen  capable  of  playing 
and  managing  the  four  Patereroes  I  had  mounted  on 
it  J  who  have  a  very  good  Houfe  in  the  Middle  of 
this  little  Redoubt,  that  is  flirrounded  with  a  wet 
Ditch.  And  I  had  ordered  Capt.  Rentone  to  have  the 
Serjeant  and  twelve  Men  relieved  every  twenty-four 
Hours  :  But  on  his  acquamting  me  that  they  ra- 
ther chofe  to  continue  there,  as  liking  better  to  be 
there  than  aboard  a  Ship,  I  told  him,  when  that 
was  the  Cafe,  he  might  oblige  them  in  it.  And 
Capt.  Pepper,  whom  I  have  accidentally  met  with 
at  different  Times,  never  mention'd  to  me  any 
Ground  of  Complaint  that  he  thought  he  had  5 
which,  I  believe.  Sir,  you  will  allow,  he  ought 
firft  to  have  done.  In  the  Day  Time  there  is  no 
Duty  expelled  from  them,  and  one  Gentry  is  fuf- 
ficient  at  a  Time  on  Duty  in  the  Night,  to  keep 
a  Look-out  that  they  be  not  furprized  •,  and  ha- 
ving long  been  aitting  Timber  for  the  Platforms 
of  the  Fafcine  Batteries  that  I  am  ereding  for  the 
Defence  of  this  Harbour,  the  Redoubt  has  now  a 
fine,  open,  clear  Air  all  round  it.  And  now  I 
have  Hated  thefe  Fafts  to  you.  Sir,  I  cannot  doubt 
but  you  will  think  Captain  Pepper*s  Memorial  as 
irregular,  idle,  and  trifling,  as  I  do.     I  am, 

SIR 

(formerly  called  H^althe-  ^ OUrmJiObcdtcnt, 

nam)  on  the  South  Side  Humble  Servant, 

oi  Cuba,  Sept.  z\y   >74'-  1^-    ^' 


.    [98] 

To  General "Wentworth. 
SIR, 

AS  there  is  now^  Month  paft  fince  our  fending 
our  laft  Letters  for  England^  2in6.  as  I  am  per-  -^ 
fwaded  of  the  Impatience  they  will  be  under  of 
hearing  frequently  froni  us  in  our  prefent  Situation  ; 
^"1  am  preparing,  at  all  Events,  for  fending  one 
df  my  unlheath'd  Fifeihips  home,  with  our  Let- 
ters to  them,  the  Beginning  of  next  Week  i  and 
defire  you  will  be  pleafed  to  get  your  Letters  in  a 
readinefs  to  go  by  her. 

I  likewife  fend  you  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  Re- 
folution  of  our  lafl  Council  of  War,  held  on  board 
the  Vefuvius  Firefhip  :  And  arri, 

^oyne,  in  Cumberland  Harbour,      o   1   K^ 

(formerly  called  Walthenam)  Tour  mofi  Obedient^ 

on  the  South  8ide  of  Cuba,  Humble  Servant, 

OSiober  1,    1741.  E     V. 

P.  S.  Two  of  the  Six-pounder  Carriages,  with 
the  long  Shafts  belonging  to  them,  that  had  drove 
quite  out  of  your  River,  arid  afterwards  on  Shore 
on  the  Weftef n  Side  of  the  Hdrbour,  having  been 
difcover'd  by  an  Officer  of  the  Tilbury,  Boats  were 
fent  for  them,  and  ^hey  are  now  on  board  the  Til- 
bury, ready  to  be  delivered  to  whom  you  fhall  be 
pleafed  to  dired.  E.  K 


To  General  WentWorth. 
SIR, 

I  Have  receivM  yours  of  yefVerday ;  and  in  regard 
to  the  Iri^  defcrting  from  the  American  Regi- 
ment, I  believe.  Sir,  you  may  remember,  I  long 
fmce  alTured  you,  all  that  you  fufpefted  fhould  be 
received  on  board  of  his  Majefly*s  Ships  whenever 
you  fent  them  to  mc  -,  which  may  ferve  to  re-place 
the  Men  on  board  the  Jugujia^  that  you  mention'd 


I  99]- 

to  me  after  flie  was  failed;  and  which  I  intend 
fending  to  you  on  her  Return  from  her  Cruize^ 
which  will  be  out  the  iQth  Inftant*  .       -^ 

And  I  muft  mention  to  you  one  Circumftance ; 
that  one  of  the  Men  fent  on  board  Captain  Rentone 
on  fufpicion  of  defigning  to^ desert,;  l^jd  it  was  that 
he  might  not  appear  as  an  Evidence  againft  an  Of- 
ficer for  defrauding  his  Men  of  their  Money  \  for 
if  any  fuch  Difcontents  are  given*  l^hat  may  ocpifion 
Pefertioh  too.     .    -. .  .        ii  .u-H    :  i:  .ij  i'.' ir;!;r> 
I  will  fen4  to  Captain  ^^fr/^'t<j  be  t^xs&A'm 
what  you  defire,  of  permitting  none  of  the  Sat- 
ling  S16ops  to  pafs  him  without  your  Permiffion; 
though  I  am  perfwaded  he  would  carefully  have 
obfcrved  it,  from. the  general  Orders  he  has  from 
me  already. 

I  was  at  the  Redoubt  at  the  other  River  yefterday 
in  the  Afternoon,  to  fee  how  our  Workmen  go 
on  there,  in  preparing  Timber  for  the  Batteries  I 
am  erefting,  for  defending  the  Entrance  into  the 
Harbour  •,  which,  I  can  now  perfonally  afllire  you,' 
is  very  open  and  airy  all  round  it.     And  judging 
that  Side  qI  the  River  where  the  Fort  is,  to  be  an 
ililand  formed  by  two  Branches  of  the  River,  I 
have  for  %  long  Time  had  fome  of  my  Officers  and 
Men  at  work  in  clearing  from  both  Mouths  ot 
the  River  upwards,  to  come  ajt  the  mj^in  Branch, 
where  they  feparate  to  make  it  an  IQand  ;  which 
\ve  have  not  yet  beqn  able  to  effed.   jln  which  they 
have  palTed  Orange  Groves,  that  jn^ke  -me  judge 
thofe  Parts  to  have  been  fettled  formerly,  though 
now  deferted;i  and  left  to  run  into  a  State  of  Na- 
ture again.  ^     .  »..:^A 
And  I  was  informed  by  Captain /?^/^?«f,  t-hat 
one  of  the  rambling  Americans  met  a  few  Plantane 
Trees  in  his  Ramble,  and  had  three  Branches  of 
(hem  with  him  j  but  never  heard  of  any  Appear- 
ance 


anceof  aPlaritltlon,  which  he  would  not  have  fallecf 
mentioning  to  me,  if  he  had  thought  there  had 
been  one.  And  the  Mailer  of  this  Ship,  who  is 
at  work  in  clearing  up  the  Rivers,  has  my  Orders, 
to  give  me  an  Account,  whenever  he  meets  with 
any  Thing  like  a  Path  leading  to  the  Rivers. 

The  Boyne  and  Grafton  lie  very  near  each  other, 
and  the  Spanijh  Boy  Izquerda^  my  Pnfoner,  will  be 
equally  at  your  Call,  and  ready  for  your  Service,  in 
either  of  them  :  But  if  you  are  more  particularly 
defirous  he  fhould  be  on  board  the  Grafton  than 
the  Boyne,  I  have  no  Objedlion  to  it.     I  am, 

SIR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Hzxhovx,        Tour  ntoji  Obedient^ 

Cuba.oaoberz,  i-i^x.  Humbk  Servant, 

E.  V. 


to  General  Went  wo  r  t  h. 
SIR, 

I  Have  receiv*d  yours  of  the  3d ;  and  the  Princefs 
Lout  fa  is  come  down  this  Morning,  and  fhall 
fail  for  Jamaica  on  Ttiefday,  with  the  Tranfport  un- 
der her  Convoy,  with  the  Invalid  Blacks  for  Ja- 
maica. And  I  have  wrote  to  Captain  Davers  to 
difpatch  the  faid  Tranfport  back  to  you  with  all 
poflible  Expedition,  under  Convoy  of  the  Brifiol^ 
as  foon  as  Mr.  Trelawney  fliall  have  got  the  one 
hundred  Independents  ready  to  come  hither  by 
her  i  and  I  prefume  you  have  wrote  to  him  to 
hailen  it  all  he  can.  • 

And  as  I  intend  difpatching  Captain  Barnard  to 
England,  with  our  Difpatches,  on  Wednefday,  I  defire 
you  will  fend  your  Letters  to  go  by  her,  down  to 
him  on  Wednefday  Morning,  at  fartheft. 

I  have  no  Objedion  to  your  exchanging  three 
Aiifericans  for  the  three  Marines  on  board  Captain 

^  Cottrell^ 


■  t  101  ] 

X^oUerellf  who  fliall  havemyOrd^s,tocomp5y,ivi|i 
it,  as  you  defke.     \  ^.  Vj;^  v.. ;'   -«:  :     •    ''.,;•[  I   • 

The  Men  orderM  on  board  the  Jugujia  -wtT^ 
order*d  there  by  Capt.  Davers,  to  enable  him  tp 
get  his  Ship,  being  a  dean  Cruizer,  in  Condition 
for  keeping  the  Sea ;  and  was  put  to  Sea  from 
hence  before  your  making  any  Application  for 
them ;  but  when  fhe  comes  in,  you  will  have  them. 
I  know  of  no  Offence  committed  by  the  Captain 
of  the  Augufta  in  it ;  and  his  Majefty's  Service  has 
not  yet  fufFer*d  thro'  your  Want  of  them,  as  no 
Enemy  have  yet  ever  made  "their  Appearance  to 
moleft  you.  T 

And  I  have  fcnt  the  Spanijh  Boy,  Izquerda,  oh 
board  the  Grafton,  where  there  are  no  other  Spanijh 
Pf  ifoners,  as  you  defire.     I  am, 

nam)  on  the  South  Side  HumbLe  Uruanty  ;  ; 

KiiCuhay  OJI.  4,  1 74 1.  E.   y. 


To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

JUST  at  Sun  fetting  I  received  yours  of  the  3d; 
and  fhall  fend  the  inclofed  to  Captain  Cotierdl, 
who  can  befl  give  an  Account  what  Truth  there 
may  be  iii  it  ^  and  he  has  my  Orders  already  for  re- ' 
ceiving  three  able  Americans,  for  the  three  Marines. 
And  if  there  be  but  a  like  Number  of  able  Men 
fent,  with  a  proper  Officer  to  command  them,  I 
fhall  have  no  Objedion  to  the  Exchange,  whether 
the  Complaint  be  real  or  imaginary. 

I  have  got  the  Convoy  with  the  returned  Blacks 
to  Sea  to-day,  for  Jamaica. 

My  Difpatchcs  will  be  made  up  to-night  for 
England^  and  the  Fircfhip  is  to  fail  to-morrow  -,  fo 

O  pray 


[    102    ] 

pray  don't  fail  to  let  your  Letters  be  down  here 
to-morrov/  Morning. 

I  hear  the  Men  that  want  to  come  to  you  are 

Jrijh  5 do  not  they  want  to  come  in  order  to 

defert  ?     I  am, 

SIR, 
Boyne,   Cuia,  YouT  mofi  Obedient, 

O^h-^ny-  Humble  Servant, 

E.  V. 


fto  his  Grace  theDukeof  N  *  *  *  *  ♦. 

My  Lord  Duke, 
Ty/I  Y  laft  to  your  Grace  were  of  the  30th  of 
*^^  Augufi  and  2d  of  September,  from  this  Har- 
bour -,  Duplicates  of  which  will  accompany  this. 

On  having  difpatched  the  Convoy  to  Jamaica, 
as  well  as  my  Letters  to  your  Grace,  I  put  to  Sea 
in  the  Orford,  to  reconnoitre  the  Entrance  into  the 
Harbour  of  St.  Jago  (as  I  mention'd  my  Intention 
of  doing)  on  that  firil  Leifure  for  it.  I  had  with 
me  there  the  Deptford,  that  was  cruizing  off  there  ; 
the  Montague  I  carried  out  with  me,  and  my  Sloop 
Tender,  which,  on  my  coming  off  there,  I  fent 
nearer  in,  with  a  Letter  from  me  to  the  Governor 
of  St.  J  ago  of  the  3d  of  September,  for  the  Sloop 
to  fend  afhore  to  the  Morro  Caftle  by  his  Boat 
with  a  Flag  of  Truce  ;  a  Copy  of  which  Letter  I 
fend  your  Grace  inclofed.  And  you  will  obferve 
by  it,  that  one  View,  befides  a  nearer  Inlpedion, 
was  to  have  procured  the  Releafe  of  Capt.  Wyllis^ 
by  whom  I  hoped  to  have  learnt  fome  mrther  In- 
telligence of  their  prefent  Situation.  I  had  Capt. 
Durell  in  the  Sloop,  befides  one  of  my  Lieutenants, 
for  making  the  beft  Obfervations  they  could,  and 
for  Captain  DureWs  Iketching  out  a  Draught  of  it. 
So  that  We  had  a  fair  Opportunity  of  making  our 
v...'u-vi  L^i  01  V.  ^-^1.  ,i  Qbjervations; 
'  ■      *-^ 


[  103  ] 

Obfervations ;  and  we  had  carefully  done  the  fame 
on  the  Coaft  down  thither,  the  two  Harbours 
Mouths  being  but  twelve  Leagues  afunder,  upon  j^ 
W.  S.  W.  T  S.  Courfe ;  upon  the  unanimous  Re- 
ports of  all  my  Officers,  that  the  attacking  St.  J  ago 
by  Sea  is  impraflicable.  . 

The  Harbour's  Mouth  of  St.  J  ago  lies  in  a  deep 
Bite,   the  Land  to  the  Weftward  of  the  Morro 
Caftle  trending  far  out  to  the  Southward,  I  judge 
about  S.W.  b  S.  which  occafions  much  more  Sea 
in  that  Bite,  than  in  the  open  Channel  without  it. 
And  I  found,  as  it  had  been  reported  by  others, 
that  tho*  you  have  a  frefh  Sea  Breeze  in  the  Offing, 
yet  when  you  come  within  four  or  five  Miles  of 
the  Land,  the  Wind  begins  to  die  away,   and  the 
Swell  throws  you  wholly  on  upon  the  Lee  Shore, 
to  the  Weftward  of  the  Harbour.     And  as  it  is  all 
an  Iron  Shore,  and  no  Anchorage  off  it,  no  Ship 
dares  approach  too  near,  without  being  fecure  of 
a  leading  Gale  to  lay  it  off  again.     And  my  Sloop, 
who  had  brought  the  Morro  Caftle  N.  b  E.  found 
herfelf  under  that  Apprehenfion  j  and  they  were 
obliged  to  get  to  their  Oars,  and  found  it  a  hard 
Talk,  in  three  Hours  rowing  againft  the  Swell,  to 
gain  one  Half-Mile,  for  getting  into  the  Sea  Breeze 
again.     So  that  it  is  not  a  fafe  Harbour  for  even 
a  friendly  Ship  to  frequent,  and  Experience  ftiews 
they  have  never  frequented  it  much.     And,  as  I 
apprehend,  they  muft  run  in  clofe  to  the  Shore  to 
windward  of  the  Harbour's  Mouth,  and  fo  drive 
down  clofe  under  the  Morro  Caftle,  and  drop  an 
Anchor  there,  and  then  warp  in. 

I  had  the  fame  Bearings  of  the  Morro  Caftle  as 
the  Sloop,  about  five  Miles  off;  but  the  Wind 
failing,  I  did  not  dare  to  venture  nearer,  for  fear 
of  not  clearing  the  \jtt  Shore  :  And  that  was  not 
far  enough  to  Leeward  to  open  the  Eftrella  Battery, 

O  2  that 


[  104  ] 

that  lies  on  the  Eaftern  Side,  jufl:  above  the  Morra 
Caftle ;  fo  that  I  could  not,  in  that  Bearing,  even 
fes  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour  open ;  which 
mufV,  by  the  high  Lands  on  each  Side  appearing 
fo  near  each  other,  be  exceeding  narrow.  And, 
to  be  lure,  you  mull  make  good  a  N.N.E.  Courfe^ 
or  more  Eaftcrly,  to  lleer  in  with  the  Channel ; 
and  as  a  conllant  Swell  fets  ftrong  to  Leeward, 
muft  lie  up  much  more  Eafterly,  tor  making  that 
Courfe  good.  Had  it  appeared  to  me  a  practicable 
Scheme  in  any  light,  vexed  with  a  Condudl  that 
appeared  to  me  unaccountable  in  the  Genera],  I 
believe  I  Ihould  have  been  as  fool-hardy  a?  any  one 
could  have  wilhed  me  :  But  I  could  not  relolve  to 
throw  his  Majelly's  Ships  away  againll  the  Rocks, 
without  the  leaft  Appearance  of  Succefs. ' 

The  bad  Weather  coming  on  foon  after,  drove 

^.  me,  in  the  Orford,  up  as  high  as  Point  a  Bacoe, 
^n  the  SoiKh  Side  oi  Hifpaniola.  And  there  I  fell 
in  with  a  Brijiol  Ship  and  Schooner, ,  bound  home 
from  Jamaica^  that  told  me  a  Piece  of  very  agree- 
able News,  of  the  Weymouth  and  Jerfey  being  fafely 
arriv'd  in  Port  Royal  Harbour,  as  alfo  the  Ludlow- 
Cafile,  that  I  had  detach'd  from  hence  with  her 
Convoy  of  Tranfports,  fent  for  our  Supplies  of 
Provilions  and  Stores.  And  he  inform'd  me  like- 
wife,  that  the  former  had  chafed  a  Sloop  alhore  to 
Leeward  of  the  Havanna,  that  was  bound  from  the 
Havanna  to  Porta  Belh ;  and  by  the  Letters  they 
found  on  board  of  her,  had  learnt,  that  Don  Rodrigo 

^de  Torres*s  Ship,  (the  Spanijh  Admiral)  was  fet  on 
Fire  by  Lightning,  and  had  blown  up  afterwards 
in  that  Harbour.  And  I  have  had  fince  the  fame 
Advices  brought  me  from  Leogane  by  Capt.  Hervey^ 
whom  I  found  here  on  my  getting  back  into  this 
Harbour  (on  the  17th  at  Night)  after  great  Variety 
of  bad  Weather,  but,  I  thank  God,  without  any 


[  i°S  ] 

ill  Accident  to  the  Ship  I  was  in.  But  the  Deptford^ 
whom  I  had  met  at  Sea  the  Day  beforc,came  in  the 
Day  after  me,  by  my  Orders,  he  having  acquainted 
me  his  Ship  was  become  very  leaky ;  and,  on  a 
Survey,  I  have  been  oblig'd  to  fend  her  to  Jamaica^ 
for  careening  to  repair  her  Damages ;  and,  fof  want 
of  better  Conveniencies,  am  oblig'd  to  diredt  two 
fixty-gun  Ships  to  careen  by  one  another ;  a  bad 
Shift  being  better  than  -none  at  all,  in  Caies^  of 
Neceflity.  -  -.-/rri 

And  as  many  of  our  Ships  are  become  ^o  crazy^ 
I  muft  beg  Leave  to  remind  your  Grace,  there  is 
an  abfolute  Neceflity  that  the  crazy  Ships  and  un- 
iheath*d  ones  fhould  be  order*d  home,  before  they 
arc  quite  ruin*d  by  a  too  long  Delay,  and  by  our 
being  in  an  Incapacity  here  to  give  them  the  ne- 
cefTary  Repairs. 

I  fend  your  Grace  inclofed.  Copies  of  the  Go- 
vernor of  St.  Jago*s  Anfwer  to  my  Letter  of  the 
"19th  oi  September,  N.  S.  and  of  my  Reply  to  it  of 
the  2  ift  of  September,  fent  him  by  the  Chefier,  gone 
to  cruize  off  his  Port.  By  which  you  will  fee,  I  have 
gratified  him  in  his  earned  Requeft  of  fending  him 
Capt.  Perez  •,  who  being  one  that  has  been  ufed  tp 
trade  with  the  Englijh,  I  hope  to  fee  him  here  again 
fobn,  as  a  Volunteer  for  that  Purpole.  And  I  have 
direded  him  to  affure  the  Hunters,  that  whatever 
Cattle  they  bring  in  t©  fell  us,  they  fhall  be  furc 
of  honourable  Treatment,  and  being  well  paid  for 
them ;  it  being  what  we  Hand  much  in  Need  of, 
to  check  the  Scurvy,  that  makes  great  Ravages 
amongft  our  Men  at  prefent.  But  we  have  hutce4 
our  fick  Men,  and  take  all  poffible  Care  of  them, 
and  do  furnifh  them  with  frcfh  Fifh  and  Mountain 
Cabbage,  which  is  fome  Relief  to  them. 

I  fend  your  Grace  likewife  inclofed,  a  Copy  of 
the  Letter  I  had  by  Captain  liervey,  on  my  Re- 
turn, 


[  166  ] 

turn,  from  the  Marquis  de  Larnage,  of  the  I2th 
of  September,  N.  S. 

And  the  next  Letters  I  muft  trouble  your  Grace 
with  Copies  of,  are,  two  from  General  IVentwortb 
to  me,  of  the  21ft  and  23d  of  September,  and  my 
Anfwers  to  them,  of  the  2  2d  and  24th  of  the 
fame  Month. 

On  the  25th  we  met  at  a  Council  of  War,  on 
board  the  Vefuvius  Firefliip,  in  the  River  Augujia  ; 
and  after  mature  Deliberation,  came  to  an  unani- 
mous Refolution  to  comply  with  Governor  'Tre- 
iawney's  Rcqueft,  of  fending  one  hundred  Ameri- 
cans to  Raian  Ifland,  With  fix  Months  Provifions. 
But  Mr.  Wentwortb  defiring  to  have  other  Things 
taken  into  Confideration  before  we  drew  up  ouf 
Refolutions  in  form,  which  I  thought  ought  to 
be  previoufly  confider'd  of  in  a  Council  of  War  of 
Land  Officers,  he  acquiefced  in  it,  and  we  ad- 
jburn'd  our  final  Determinations  to  a  future  Meet- 
ing on  I'uefday  the  29th  of  September. 

\  am  in  fome  Pain  for  the  Sheernefs,  a  clean 
Ship,  that  fhould  have  join'd  rne  long  before 
now,  from  "Porf  Antonio ;  and  am  not  without  Fears 
<!)f  what  may  have  happened  at  Jamaica,  the  Wea- 
ther having  a  very  bad  Afpeft  towards  Jamaica, 
when  I  was  off  Cape  Tiber  on,  about  the  14  th  of 
September ;  which  makes  me  impatiently  long  to 
hear  from  them. 

Having  got  the  Spanijh  Papers  trandated,  which 
Mr.  Wentworth  fent  me,  that  were  taken  by  Capt. 
Burrard  in  his  late  Excurfion  to  Guantanamo,  I  fend 
your  Grace  inclofcd  a  Copy  of  them.  And  by  the 
Return  of  a  Party  commanded  by  Captain  fVebb^ 
that  came  from  Guantanamo  the  25  th  of  September 
in  the  Morning,  it  appears  they  arrived  there  with- 
out meeting  any  Ambufhes  in  their  Way  thither  ; 
but  law  a  Spanijb  Guard  a  little  beyond  it,  who  ran 

away 


[  107  ] 

away  upon  their  firft  Appearance.  Thefe  Letters, 
in  my  Apprehcnfion,  manifcft,  that  if  Matters  had 
been  vigoroufly  pufhed  on  at  our  firft  Arrival,  we 
fiiould  not  have  failed  of  all  the  Succefs  we  could 
have  defired  ;  and  that  even  our  very  Continuance 
here,  has  very  much  harrafTed  them,  and  put  thein 
to  very  confiderable  Expences.  O 

On  the  29th  we  met  according  to  our  Adjourn- 
ment, and  Mr.  Wentworib  delivered  me  a  Copy  of 
the  Refolution  of  their  Council  of  War  of  the  26th 
of  Sept  ember y  which  I  fend  your  Grace  inclofcd  a 
Copy  of.     And  it  having  been  read  to  us,  we  had 
our  former  Refolutions,   and   what    was   judged 
proper  to  be  added,  drawn  up  in  form ;  and  I  lend 
your  Grace  inclofed,  a  Copy  of  the  Refolution  of 
Dur  faid  Council  of  War  of  the  29th  of  September, 
At  our  firft  meeting  on  the  25th,   Mr.  fVent- 
•worth  fuggefting,  that  the  Sicknefs  was  daily  in- 
creafing   amongft  his  Forces,   and  that,    if  they 
ihould  be  much  more  diminifhed  by  Sicknefs,  the3fr 
ihould  not  even  be  able  to  maintain  themfelves  in 
their  prefent  Encampment ;  I  hinted  to  him,  that 
as  Sir  Charles  fVagei^s  Letter  had  mention'd  there 
were  Thoughts  of  fending  a  Reinforcement  of  two 
thoufand  Men,  and  as  we  might  daily  expert  to 
hear  from  England^  I  was  perfwaded  he  would  not 
think  it  proper  to  entertain  any  fuch  Thoughts  till 
we  received  our  next  Advices  from  England.    And 
I  fuggefled  to  him,  that,  whenever  either  the  Ad- 
vice of  a  French  War,  or  any  other  Reafon,  might 
make  it  necefTary  to  embark  the  Forces,  it  would 
be  advifeable  to  have  a  good  Communication  cut 
on  the  Camp  Side  of  the  River,  from  the  Camp  to 
where  the  Bomb-Ketch  lies,  for  covering  the  Boats, 
whenever  it  fhould  be  judged  neceflary  to  re-em- 
bark the  Cannon  and  Baggage  i  and  that  being 
done,   the  Forces  muft  march  from  the  Camp  to 

the 


t  'o8  ]  ' 

the  Bomb-Ketch,  for  their  being  fafcly  re-embark*d 
there  under  the  Command  of  the  Cannon  from  the 
FlotUla  and  Tranlports.  He  faid  Mr.  Blakeney  had 
already  advifcd  that :  And  I  anfwcred,  that  I  was 
very  glad  to  find,  what  I  had  recommended  to 
him,  had  the  Approbation  of  fo  experienced  an 
Officer  as  Mr.  Blakeney.  And  at  our  meeting  on 
the  29th  he  affur'd  rfie,  they  had  determined  on 
opening  the  faid  Communication. 

I  took  notice  likewife  at  our  firft  Meeting,  that 
the  Copy  of  his  Letter  to  the  Governors  of  the 
Northern  Colonies  (that  he  had  firft  fent  to  me  the 
2  2d  of  September)  was  not  conformable  to  the  Ad- 
vice given  him  by  the  Council  of  War  of  the  20th 
of  July ;  to  which  he  anfwered,  as  he  looked  on 
that  as  Advice  only,  he  had  not  judg'd  that  the 
Situation  of  our  Affairs  allow*d  him  to  conform  to 
it  in  all  particulars. 

I  fet  out  before  Day  on  the  29th  of  September^ 
for  making  Mr.  Wentworth  a  Vifit,  and  viewing 
his  Camp  with  him,  before  our  meeting  at  the 
Council  of  War.  And  the  Ground  being  clear'd 
about  it,  I  thought  it  both  a  very  beautifijl  and 
healthful  Encampment  j  and  an  eafy  Afcent  to  the 
Hills  furrounding  it,  made  it,  in  my  Apprehenfion, 
very  ftrong  by  Nature.  And  I  viewed  with  him 
all  the  Entrenchments  made  on  thofe  Hills,  for  co-- 
vering  his  Camp  to  the  Land  Side,  from  whence 
his  Cannon  could  fcour  the  Country  round ;  and 
he  has  the  River  for  his  Barrier  on  the  other  Side. 
And  as  no  Enemy  can  approach  him,  without  be- 
ing fubjeft  to  all  the  Inconveniencies  that  he  ap- 
prehended to  be  a  juft  Reafon  againft  their  advanc- 
ing into  the, Country,  there  is  the  fame  Reafon  to 
think  it  ftiould  be  equally  imprudent  for  the  Ene- 
my to  attempt  to  approach  him  \  and  it  is  certain, 
Km  Nji.-^-'  ---   ir%.-t:  r-'^?-'^'  •';,'-"'v''-~-  not 


[ri09  ] 

not  fo  much  as  any  of  their  Parties  have  thought 
proper  to  attempt  it  yet. 

And  that  your  Grace  may  fee  I  have  not  been 
wanting  in  looking  out  for  the  frelheft  Advices 
from  you,  I  fend  you  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  Orders 
I  have  fent  Captain  Ckland  to  Sea  with,  which  are 
conformabJe  to  the  former  Orders  given  to  my 
Cruizers  in  that  Station. 

Your  Grace's  laft  Letter  of  the  24th  oi  May 
mentioning,  that  you  hoped  foon  to  have  ah  Op- 
portunity of  writing  to  me  more  fully  -,  and  Sir 
Charles  Wager* s  Letter  mentioning,  there  were  fome 
Thoughts  offending  a  Reinforcement  of  two  thou- 
fand  Land  Forces  to  thefe  Parts ;  and  other  Let- 
ters, to  private  Hands,,  even  mentioning  that  the 
Tranfports  were  taken  up  for  thofe  Forces  ;  arc  to 
me  very  reafonable  Inducements  to  think  that  we 
ought  not  to  part  with  the  good  Footing  we  have 
here,  till  wc  hear  from  your  Grace,  or  have  fome 
certain  Intelligence  that  fuch  an  Intention  is  en- 
tirely laid  afide.  For  were  they  to  come  foon,  as 
the  dry  Seafon  will  be  fetting  in  with  the  Norths 
in  the  latter  End  of  this  Month  (which  would  be 
a  healthful  Seafon  for  European  Conftitutions)  I 
cannot  think  we  can  be  better  polled  for  beginning 
the  Redufbion  of  this  Ifland,  than  we  are  at  pre- 
fent,  nor  have  a  better  Seafon  of  the  Year  for  it. 
But  I  think  it  eafily  difcernible  from  what  hai 
paiTed,  that  if  no  Reinforcements  fpcedily  arrive, 
or  certain  Accounts  of  their  being  coming,  I  ihall 
not  be  able  to  prevail  with  my  Colleague  to  continue 
here  much  longer. 

Moll  of  his  Majcfty's  Ships,  I  have  already  in- 
formed your  Grace,  are  in  a  very  fhattered  Condi- 
tion, by  being  kept  pretty  conllantly  bulking  in 
the  Sea,  without  convenient  Opportunities  of  giv- 
ing them  the  neceflary  Repairs  j  fo  that  the  crazy 

P  Ships 


Ships,  and  the  unfheath'd  Ships,  there  will  be  an 
abfoiuteNeGeffity  of  fending  home,  fo  as  to  have  a 
Summer  Paflage  -,  for  the  crazieft  are  too  bad  to 
bear  a  Winter  Paflage,  and  the  unfheath*d  ones 
will  be  ruined  if  they  are  kept  much  longer  here, 
and  fome  of  them  are  now  too  leaky  to  be  trufted 
in  a  Winter  Paflage  -,  and  all  are  '  fo  reduced  by 
Sicknefs,  as  not  to  have  Men  enough  to  carry  them 
home,  without  the  Afiifl:ance  of  the  Land  Forces. 
And  fliould  the  American  Regiment  be  fettled  at 
Jamaica,  or  elfewhere,  which  I  judge  would  be  mofl: 
for  his  Majefl:y*s  Service,  the  other  Troops  would 
be  but  barely  fufficient  to  man  his  Majefl:y's  Ships 
for  carrying  them  fafe  home,  and  there  would  be 
"  no  further  need  of  Transports,  but  fuch  as  might 
be  judged  necefl^ary  for  accommodating  the  Offi- 
cers. And  I  defiie  your  Grace  would  have  Orders 
fent,  th/t  the  Forces  to  return  may  be  ordered 
into  the  Men  of  War,  to  enable  them  to  go  home 
in  a  Condition  of  Defence. 

And  as  the  greater  Number  of  the  Ships  mull 
abfolutely  go  home  in  the  Spring  of  the  Year,  I 
hope  it  will  be  judged  no  unreafonable  Requeft, 
that  I  Ihould  command  them  home,  efpecially  as 
his  Majefty  has  here  fo  experienc'd  an  Officer  as 
Sir  Chaloner  Ogle,  who  is  well  acquainted  with  thefe 
Seas,  to  take  the  Command  of  what  are  to  remain. 

On  the  3d  of  O^ober  I  had  Advice,  by  a  Sut- 
tling  Sloop  from  Jamaica,  that  failed  from  thence 
the  23d  of  September,  that  the  Ludlow-Cajile,  with 
the  Convoy  of  Tranfports  from  hence,  was  ar- 
riv'd  fafe  at  Jamaica,  and  was  to  fail  in  a  Week 
after  him. 

And  he  brought  an  Account  of  the  Shoreham 
having  taken  a  Spani/kYtfCd  with  twenty  thoufand 
Pieces  of  Eight,  off  Carthagena -,  and  that  the 
Spanijh  Admiral,  Don  Blafs  de  Lezoy  was  faid  to 

have 


[  III  1 

have  died  there.  And  he  confirm*d  the  Weymouth's 
znd  Jerfey^s  fafe  Return  to  Port  Royal -,  and  faid 
they  had  a  hard  South  dX  Jamaica  on  the  14th  of 
September,  but  had  not  fufFer'd  much  by  it  in  their 
Shipping  J  but  that  they  had  fuffer'd  at  the  Lee- 
ward IJlands,  feveral  Ships  having  been  blown  from 
thence  in  a  fhatter*d  Condition,  to  take  Refuge  at 
Jamaica  :  But  having  no  Letters  myfelf  from  any 
one  in  Jamaica  by  him,  I  cannot  fend  your  Grace 
any  further  Particulars.  But  he  having  met  the 
Chefter  at  Sea,  cruizing  off  St.  Jago,  I  fend  your 
Grace  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  Letter  Capt.  Lang  fent 
me  in  by  him,  from  the  Governor  of  St.  Jago,  ia 
Anfwer  to  mine  fent  him  with  the  Flag  of  Truce^ 
with  the  five  Spanijh  Prifoners.  .     ,  >'/; 

Judging  your  Grace  would  be  impatient  to  hear 
from  us  frequently,  fo  as  to  be  able  to  judge 
what  was  to  be  expefted,  I  thought  it  for  his 
Majefly*s  Service  to  fend  one  of  my  unfheath'd 
Firefhips,  commanded  by  Capt.  Barnard,  to  carry 
your  Grace  the  certaineft  State  of  Affairs  I  could 
fend  you.  And  having  given  Mr.  Wentworth 
previous  Notice  of  my  Intentions  the  Beginning  of 
lafl  Week,  your  Grace  will  have  his  Letters  by 
the  fame  Occafion.     I  am, 

%«,,  in  Cumberland       ^  ^'^^  ^^^'r    , 

Harbour  (formerly       Tour  Grace's  mojt 

call'd  Walthenam)  Devoted,  and  moft 

on  the  vSouth  Side  of  Obedient y  Humble  Servant, 

Cuba,OJl.^,  1741.  j7^    y^ 

P.  .V.  Capt.  Davers  difpatching  up  one  of  my 
Firefhips,  which  came  in  yellerday  in  the  After- 
noon, I  fend  your  Grace  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  In-r 
telligence  fent  me  by  Capt.  Knowles,  extraded  out 
of ,  Letters  in  the  Spanijh  Sloop  be  took }  and 
I  am  forry  my  Cruizers  under  his  Orders  had  the 
Misfortune  to  mifs  the  Rcgifter  Ships>  mention'd 
P  ?  to 


to  be  arrlv'd  at  La  Vera  Cniz ;  but  apprehend 
from  this  Account,  they  got  there  before  the  for- 
mer got  to  their  Stations. 

By  Letters  to  Capt.  Davers  from  the  Captain  of 
the  Augufia,  I  find,  he  has  been  very  bufy  in 
ferretting  about  the  Spanijh  Privateers  from  Port 
Francois ;  but  as  they  have  that  Refuge  fo  near, 
they  have  efcap'd  in  there,  and  probably  are  moft 
of  them  French  on  board  :  And  I  will,  in  my 
next  to  the  Marquis  de  Larnage^  complain  of  this 
PartiaHty  in  their  Favour. 

And  I  have  the  Pleafure  to  hear,  the  Sheernefs^ 
which  I  was  in  Pain  for,  got  fafe  to  Port  Royal 
Harbour,  tho'  much  fhatter'd,  and  with  Jury- 
Mails;  and  to  hear  we  might  foon  expeft  the 
Return  of  our  Convoy  here  from  Jamaica. 

I  have  fent  likewife  two  Catalan  Soldiers,  that 
defcrted  at  Carthagena,  one  of  which  Mr.  IVent- 
worth  made  Ufe  of  as  a  Guide  at  his  Attack 
on  St.  Lazarus.  I  have  order*d  them  Tickets  for 
their  Service  while  on  board  here,  for  fubfifling 
them  when  releas'd  •,  but  Captain  Barnard  has  my 
Orders,  not  to  fet  them  on  Shore  till  he  knows 
your  Grace's  Pleafure,  whether  you  would  have 
them  fent  up  firfl,  to  have  their  Examinations. 

Oiiober  6,  1 741.  E.   K^ 


to  General  Wentworth. 
S  I  R, 

I  Have  fent  you  by  Cdjpt.  Broderick  the  Letter  you 
fent  me,  from  Serjeant  Elder  to  Captain  i/-^/, 
with  Captain  CottereWs  Anfwer  to  it,  annex*d  ;  by 
which  you  will  fee,  the  Man  himfelf  owns  all  he 
hi^s  faid  to  be  a  Lye,  by  the  Atteftation  of  his  own 
Officer,  as  well  as  of  Capt.  Cotter  ell  and  his  Officers  ; 
^ad  you  will  fee  they  think,  as  I  do,  that  the  Man's 
'^ '  principal 


["3] 

principal  Inducement  was,  to  have  an  Opportunity 
to  defert. 

And  I  am  perfwaded.  Sir,  when  you  have  read  it, 
you  will  think  Capt.  H — /  deferves  fome  Mark  of 
your  DIfpleafurc,  for  prefuming  to  put  into  your 
Hands  fuch  a  Complaint  before  he  had  taken  Care 
to  inform  himfelf  of  the  Truth  of  it ;  and  that  you 
will  take  the  Notice  you  think  proper,  of  their 
Complaint  againft  him  for  want  of  Payment  and 
NecefTaries. 

Capt.  Wafhington^  who  was  here  from  Col.  Cope^ 
to  have  an  Account  of  the  particular  Difpofal  of 
the  Americans  on  board  our  Ships,  had  from  me  a 
particular  Account  of  them,  as  he  defir'd;  and 
you  know.  Sir,  their  making  a  Confufion,  by 
fending  them  on  board  by  Detachments  from 
each  Company,  was  their  own  handy- work. 

I  fend  this  Letter  by  Captain  Broderick^  as  he 
comes  lateft  from  Jamaica ;  from  whence  I  cannot 
learn,  that  there^are  any  Letters  from  England  later 
than  June  laft  •,  but  there  arc  Reports  even  of  fix 
or  eight  thoufand  Men  being  to  be  fent  here. 

The  Dutch  Ship,  with  Wine  from  Malaga^  fays, 
that  three  of  Mr.  Haddock's  Cruizers  had,  in  the 
Streights  Mouth,  in  the  Night,  the  like  Ren- 
punter  with  three  French  Men  of  War  as  Sir 
Chaloner  Ogle's  Cruizers  had  here ;  in  which  the 
French  had  one  of  their  Captains  kill'd,  a  young 
Marquis ;  and  that  he  faw  them  put  afhore  feventy 
wounded  Men  at  Malaga. 

He  heard  likewife,  that  Sir  John  Norris  had  d^- 
■tach*d  five  Men  of  War  to  Port  St.  Jndero,  that 
i\ad  burnt  there  five  Spanijh  Privateers  and  five 
Merchant  Ships. 

And  it  is  faid,  ten  thoufand  of  our  Forces  were 
tranfported,  and  had  join'd  his  Majelly,  who  was 

at 


at  the  Head  of  thirty  thoufand  Men,  of  his  own 
Forces  knd  Auxiliaries. 

And  I  fend  you  a  Letter  I  have  receiv'd  from 
the  Marquis  de  Larnage  (that  you  will  pleafe  to  re- 
turn me  by  Capt.  Broderick)  which  will,  I  am  per- 
fwaded,  convince  you,  as  it  does  me,  that  this  was 
not  the  principal  Motive  of \  the  Meflenger's  coming 
here.  But  I  have  invitee!  him  to  dine  with  me 
again  to-day,  when  I  fhall  put  into  his  Hands  my 
Anfwer  to  his  Excellency's  Letter,  that  waiting  for 
that  may  not  be  a  Pretence  for  his  longer  Conti- 
nuance here.     I  -am, 

SIR, 

Jtoyne,  Oa.  9,  1741.  Tourmofi  Obedient, 

Humble  Servant,  y 
E.  V. 


^0  Captain  Long,  of  the  Chefter. 

WHereas  his  Excellency  theMarquefs  de  Larnage, 
Governor  and  Lieutenant  General  of  the 
French  Leeward  Iflands,  has  fent  me,  by  one  o£hi$ 
Guarda  Cojia  Sloops  (the  Tempete)  a  civil  Letter, 
with  the  Return  of  two  Englijh  Seamen  and  a  Boy, 
Deferters  from  the  Tork  -,  which  he  mentions  to 
have  been  the  only  Intent  of  fending  her.  But,  as 
you  will  find  by  the  annex'd  Information  of  the  fiid 
two  Englijh  Seamen,  there  is  juft  Ground,  at  leaft, 
to  fufped,  that  Capt.  Olivier,  the  Captain  of  In- 
fantry that  commands  her,  has  other  Views ;  from 
the  Contraband  Cargo  of  Iron  and  Arms  mention*d 
in  the  faid  Information  to  be  brought  on  board  t^ 
Spaniards,  and  in  a  Spanip  Boat  •,  and  further,  from 
the  Conduit  of  the  faid  Capt.  Oli'^ier,  whofe  En»- 
quiries  privately  amongft  lome  of  our  Men,  and 

avoiding 


avoiding  our  Officers,  have  had  too  much  the  Air 
of  tranfading  the  Part  of  a  Spy  upon  us  here.    ' 

This,  in  regard  to  doing  all  in  our  Power  td 
preferve  an  exact  Neutrality  with  them,  has  beeii 
thought  proper  to  be  overlooked,  if  they  proceed 
no  further  toward  the  Execution  of  what  mayjuftly 
be  fufped:ed  to  be  the  faid  Captain*s  Intent,  viz^ 
to  throw  the  faid  Succour  of  Iron  and  Arms  into 
St.  Jago  :  '  ^  ^  i 

And  I  have  myfelf  told  the  faid  Captain,  that 
as  we  looked  upon  St.  Jago  to  be  invefted  by  us,  I 
hoped  he  had  no  Thoughts  of  moving  that  way  ; 
which  he  aflured  me  he  had  not,  but  fhould  ftretch 
over  direftly  to  Cape  Dona  Maria. 

On  taking  the  whole  maturely  into  Confidera- 
tion  with  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle^  it  was  judged  advifeable 
by  us,  that  I  (hould  fend  you  the  particular  Orders 
following,  for  your  Government  in  it. 

And  you  are  accordingly  hereby  required  and 
diredled,  in  cafe  you  meet  the  faid  Guarda  Cojia 
Sloop,  called  the  Tempete,  going  into  St.  JagQ 
(which  appears  by  the  Marquefs  de  Larnage*s  Let-* 
ter,  and  his  own  Confeffion,  to  be  contrary  xo  his 
Order;)  you  are,  in  fuch  Cafe,  to  flop  the  faid 
Guarda  Sloop  from  going  in,  and  to  take  out  of 
her  the.  faid  Contraband  Stores  put  on  board  her  at 
Lepgane  by  Spaniards ;  and  acquainting  the  faid  Capt, 
Olivier,  that  by  the  Rules  ot  War  he  can't  be  per- 
mitted to  go  into  the  faid  Port,  you  are  to  leav^ 
^him  at  free  Liberty  to  go  where  he  pleafes  elfe. 
For,  &c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Har- 
bour (formerly  call*d  PFaltbenam)  on  the  South 
SideofC«^tf,  this  loth  of  O^okr,  1741. 

E.  V, 

P.  S.  I  would  have  you  continue  your  Cruize  to 
the  30th  Inftant,  if  you  are  not  relieved  fooner. 

E.V. 


f  "6  j 

To  General  WENTwoRtH. 
SIR, 

I  Have  receiv'd  your  two  Letters,  of  the  9th  and 
loth  of  06lober  ;  the  former  by  the  Officer  that 
brought  the  Detachment  of  Men  you  fufpefted  of 
* '  intending  to  defert,  which  are  on  board  the  Lyotty 
as  you  defired.  But  having  fuch  full  Proof,  from 
the  Return  made  by  Captain  Cotterell  and  all  the 
Commiffion  Officers  on  board  the  Ship  (which  I 
lent  to  you)  of  the  lying  Reprefentation  made  by 
Serjeant  Elder,  I  could  not  have  conceived  that  you 
would  have  judged  it  proper,  to  give  the  leaft 
Countenance  to  fuch  who  had  the  Infolence  to  at- 
tempt fo  grofsly  impofing  on  you ;  or  to  thofe 
who  prefumed  to  hand  it  to  you  without  the  leaft 
Enquiry  into  it.  And  as  Part  of  thefe  Men,  by 
the  laid  Report,  are  reprefented  under  the  fame 
Circumftances  as  thofe  you  fent  down,  of  defigning 
to  defert ;  I  could  not  judge  it  for  his  Majefty*$ 
Service  they  fhould  be  fent.  But  I  have  given 
Captain  Cotterell  Orders,  to  diftinguifh,  in  the  Lifl 
of  thofe  Men,  thofe  he  fufpeds  may  defign  to 
deferti  and  thofe  he  does  not  %  and  the  three  Ma- 
rines, and  fuch  as  are  not  fufpeded  to  defign  to 
defert,  and  the  Officer,  fhall  be  fent  with  them  : 
And  if  you  think  it  of  Confequence,  the  Number 
fhall  be  compleated  out  of  others  that  may  not 
have  given  Occafion  to  fufpedt  their  Defign  of  de- 
ferting. 

As  to  the  Care  of  our  fick  Men,  I  believe  I  may 
venture  to  afTure  you,  as  we  have  erected  Hutts 
for  them,  where  they  cannot  defert,  that  your  Care 
of  them  at  Camp  cannot  poffibly  exceed  ours  here. 

I  was  concerned  to  hear,  fo  fmall  a  Party  as 
twenty  Negroes  had  been  fent  out,  with  an  Officer 
t>f  their  own  only,  without  any  other  to  dired: 
thofe  who  cannot  be  expe6tcd  to  underfbmd  much 

Difcipline 


[117] 

iDiicipline  of  themfelves  ;  but  was  glad  to  hear  the 
Officer's  Folly,  in  being  a  Pigeon-Shooting  inftcad 
of  minding  his  Orders,  had  no  worfc  Confequcnces 
than  falUng  on  himfclt  only. 

And  as  you  fcem  fixed  in  your  Refolutions,  of 
advancing  no  further  till  you  receive  Succours  from 
England',  I  hope  you  will  not  take  it  amifs  that  I 
fhould  fuggeft  my  Thoughts  in  fuch  Cafe,  that  it 
would  be  beft,  not  to  harrafs  your  Troops  by  any 
long  Excurfions  of  Parties,  but  to  confine  your 
Views  to  ftrengthening  your  Camp,  and  opening  a 
Communication  a-long-fide  of  the  River,  from  the' 
Camp  to  the  Bomb-Ketch  (as  you  was  pleafed  to 
fay  was  Mr.  Blakeney's  Advice  to  you  before  I  had 
fuggefted  my  Thoughts  to  you  about  it;)  for  co- 
vering the  Embarkation  of  your  Cannon  and  Bag- 
gage, if  a  French  War  Ihould  make  your  fudden 
Re-embarkation  neceffary.  For,  to  be  fure,  the 
only  fure  way  of  re-embarking  the  Troops,  will  be 
by  their  marching  afterwards  in  a  Body  down  to 
where  the  Bomb-Ketch  and  Tranfports  lie,  where 
it  can  be  done  with  great  Eafe  and  Safety. 

I  am  glad  I  can  acquaint  you,  the  French  Officers, 
that  I  think,  as  you  do,  were  principally  fent  as 
Spies  upon  us,  are  decamp'd,  and  put  to  Sea  yef- 
terday  in  the  Afternoon.  The  Evening  before,  they 
entered  the  River  in  the  Dufk  of  the  Evening  : 
But  the  firft  of  my  Officers  they  came  to  pafs  by. 
Hopping  them,  to  know  whether  they  had  any 
Leave  from  me  for  their  fo  doing,  at  firft  they  faid 
they  had  *,  but  on  his  defiring  them  to  produce  it, 
they  giving  him  an  infolent  Anfwer  (faying  it  was 
in  their  Codpiece,  or  Words  to  that  cSc6t)  he  did 
not  permit  their  advancing  :  And  finding  I  would 
receive  no  Prefents  from  them,  and,  I  believe,  fuf- 
pefting  I  had  better  Intelligence  of  their  Defigns 
and  Proceedings  than  they  wilhed  f^r  >  they  dined 

d,  with 


[  "8] 

with  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  yefterday,  and  came  after- 
wards to  take  their  Leave  of  me,  under  fome  vifiblc 
Marks  of  Confufion.  I  was  very  glad  to  fee  them 
going,  and  had  fent  Orders  before  them,  to  watch 
their  Motions  when  they  were  out. 

I  only  wait  for  the  Convoy  coming  in,  to  receive 
my  Letters,  for  preparing  all  neceffary  Orders  to 
be  fent  to  Jamaica ;  and  defire  you  will,  therefore, 
get  your  Letters  for  Jamaica  ready  as  foon  as  you 
can.  And  if  you  will  pleafe  to  fend  them  to  me, 
or  on  board  the  Vulcan  Firefhip,  I  will  give  all  ne- 
ceffaiy  Orders  for  their  fafe  and  fpeedy  delivery,  as 
you  defire.  Hoping  the  Pacquet  from  Jamaica^ 
that  I  fent  you  Yefterday,  came  fafe  to  your  Hands  •> 
I  am, 

&  J  K 

Bcyne,  in  Cumherjand  jUrhont  ^^^^  ^^^  OM'enf, 

on  the  South  Side  of  Cuba,  Bumbk  Servant^ 

04t.  II,  1741.  E.  V. 


7<?  General  Went  worth. 

SIR,, 

THIS  waits  on  you  to  acquaint  you,  that  to- 
morrow, or  next  Day  at  fartheft,  I  fhall  fend 
the  Defiance  to  Sea  upon  a  Cruize,  and  order  her 
to  touch  at  Jamaica  in  her  way  j  therefore  if  you 
have  any  Letters  you  want  to  have  fpeedily  con- 
veyed thither,  be  pleafed  to  let  me  have  them  by 
to-morrow  Noon.  But  if  they  cannot  be  ready  by 
that  Time,  it  will  not  be  long  before  there  will  be 
another  Opportunity  of  writing  thither.    I  am, 

S    I    Ry 

MoytteM  Cumberland  Xour  moft  ObediSitt^ 

Jl^bour,  Cuba.  ^^^^^  Servnnf, 


[  119  ] 

To  General  Wbnt worth, 
S  I R, 

Finding  by  your  Letter  of  the  13th,  that  youf 
Advices  are  the  lame  that  we  have,  that,  in  all 
Probability,  the  firft  News  we  have  inay  t>e  that 
-of  a  French  War ; 

It  was  thought  neceflary  to  take  into  mature 
Deliberation  v/ith  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle,  wh^t  was  pro- 
per to  be  done  on  fuch  an  Event. 

And  we  are  clear  in  our  Opinions,  that  w^ 
ought  not  to  lofe  any  Time  in  putting  to  Sea 
with  the  fix  Capital  Ships,  to  take  all  the  Advan- 
tage we  could  for  deftroying  the  Enemy's  Ships 
jjj.****<i^f****4|r**j  ^j^^  ^Q  leave  behind 

us  a  fufficient  Convoy,  for  affifting  and  proteding 
the  Embarkation  of  your  Army,  and  bringing 
them  up  after  us  with  all-  polTible  Expedition. 
And  we  obferve,  with  Pleafure,  it  is  your  Opinio^ 
as  well  as  ours,  to  make  them,  in  fuch  Cafe,  a^ 
early  a  Vifit  as  poffible. 

And  as  it  would  much  facilitate  the  fpeedy  and 
fafe  Re-imbarkation  of  the  Cannon  and  Baggage, 
to  have  the  Path  cut  along  the  River  Side  from 
the  Camp  to  the  Bomb-Ketch  (which,  it  is  judg*d, 
a  hundred  Blacks  might  do  in  three  Pays ;)  we 
beg  Leave  to  fudged  to  you  our  Opinion,  that  it 
cannot  be  too  foon  fet  upon,  as  fuch  Advices 
would  require  all  Things  being  difpatch'd  with  the 
utmoft  Expedition. 

And  as  many  of  our  Ships,  for  being  in  a 
Condition  for  Service,  will  require  being  aflifted 
with  a  Number  of  your  Forces,  that  came  hither 
embark*d  in  Tranfports ;  we  agree  with  you,  that 
it  would  be  right  to  eafe  the  great  Expence  to 
the  Crown  on  that  Head,  on  all  Occafions  where 
you  find  you  have  more  Tranfports  than  you  havq 
Occafion  for. 

0^2  -  M 


[     120    ] 

As  we  have  no  Views  in  the  Advice  we  fend 
you,  but  what  appears  to  us  mofl  for  his  Majefty's 
Service,  we  are  perfwaded.  you  v;ill  receive  it  in 
eood  part  from  us.     We  are, 

Bopie,  in  Cumherland  Totiv  moji  Obedient^ 

Harbour,   Cuba,  Humbled erv ant s, 

Od.  1 6,   1741.  TT     \r 

'^  jbL.    VERNON, 

C.  Ogle. 


^0  Capt.  Forrest,  of  the  Alderncy  Bomb. 

y  former  verbal  Orders  to  you  in  regard  to 
the  Tranfports,  haying  been  too  carelefsly 
regarded  by  them,  I  have  thought  proper  to  re- 
new them  to  you  in  Writing. 

And  you  are  hereby  direfted,  to  require  Mr. 
JValkicc\  the  Agent  of  the  Tranfports,  to  fend  fuit- 
able  Orders  to  each  of  them,  for  their  careful  Go- 
vernment for  the  future  \  giving  him  a  Copy  of 
my  Orders  to  you,  for  his  Government  therein,  in 
enjoining  them  duly  to  obferve  them. 

You  are  hereby  required  and  dire6led,.  to  give 
ftrift  Orders  to  thofe  6f  the  Flotilla  put  under 
your  Commiand,  every  Evening  to  haul  on  board 
the  Planks,  or  other  Communication  they  -may  have 
from  their  Ships  to  the  Shore  in  the  Day-time ; 
and  that  they  have  Anchors  laid  out  in  the  River, 
to  haul  off  to,  upon  any  Enemy  coming  fuddenly 
on  them ;  and  that  they  keep  their  Guns  loaded 
with  Ball  for  their  Defence  -,  and  give  their  re- 
fpective  Seamen  a  ftrict  Injundlion,  not  to  ramble 
far  from  their  Ships,  under  Pretence  of  Shooting, 
or  otherwife  (that  they  may  not  carelefsly  play 
themfelves  into  the  Enemy's  Hands,  as  fome  have 
appear'd  very  near  the  Camp,    well,  mounted  on 

Horfcback;) 


Horfeoack  •,)  and  to  aflure  the  refpeftlve  Maflfers, 
that  the  Crown  will  anfwer  for  no  Damages  that 
ihall  accrue  thro'  Carelcflhefs.  And  you  will  order 
a  careful  Guard  to  be  kept  on  board  the  Flotilla, 
and  eftablifh  proper  Signals,  for  giving  due  Notice 
of  the  Appearance  of  any  Enemy. 

And  in  Cafe  of  any  Alarm  being  made  in  the 
Night,  that  might  require  my  fending  Boats 
mann'd  and  arm'd  in  the  Night,  you  are  to  take 
the  Command  of  them  upon  you,  and  poft  them, 
for  Service,  on  board  fuch  Ships  as  you  fhall  judge 
moft  proper  for  the  Service  of  covering  and  pro- 
tefting  the  reft.     For,  i^c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Har- 
bour (formerly  calPd  Walthenam)  on  the  South 
Side  of  Cuba,  this  i8th  of  O^ober,  174 1. 

E.  V. 

To  General  Wintworth. 
SIR, 

UPON  the  Receipt  of  your  Letter  of  the  17th 
Inftant,  I  communicated  it  to  Sir  Chaloner 
'  Ogle ;  and  we  were  glad  to  find  you  was  deter- 
mine to  lofe  no  Time  in  clearing  the  Road  along 
the  River  Side,  to  the  Bomb-Ketch. 

But  tho'  we  both  agree  with  you  in  the  Ap- 
pearances there  are  of  a  French  War ;  yet,  as  we 
have  no  publick  Advices  of  it,  we  cannot  think 
our  Surmifes,  that  a  War  may  happen  to  break 
out  between  the  two  Nations,  a  fufficient  Motive 
for  aflembling  a  Publick  Council  of  War. 

To  be  fure.  Sir,  it  will  be  right  in  you,  to  have 
fuch  an  Event  in  your  Thoughts,  for  making  a 
proper  Difpofition  whenever  it  fhould  happen  ; 
and  we  make  no  Difficulty,  Sir,  in  freely  fending 
you  our  Opinion  upon  it. 

That 


f.if  .  V    .?  {    122    ] 

That  the  firfl:  Step  Ihould  be,  clearing  a  Road 
by  the  River  Side,  for  fecuring  a  fafe  Paflkge  to 
the  Boats,  in  the  Re-embarkation  of  your  Cannon 
and  Baggage. 

And  that  for  the  convenienter  doing  of  that,  the 
commanding  Officer  of  the  Train  (hou'd  have  your 
Orders  to  be  preparing  a  little  Wharf,  that  their 
Liongboats  can  lay  their  Sides  to,  for  the  convenient 
ihippingoff  the  Cannon  and  Baggage;  in  whichCapt. 
Forreji  will  afllft  him  with  his  Advice  if  he  defires  it. 

And  they  being  all  fhipp'd  off,  that  then  the 
whole  Army  fhould  march  in  a  Body  from  the 
Camp,  through  the  open  Salinas^  to  where  the 
Bomb-Ketch  and  Tranfports  lie,  where  they  may 
^o  on  board  their  refpedtive  Tranfports  with  gre^t 
Eafe  and  Safety. 

r_ .  We  did  not  in  our  laft  propofe  any  Draught 
Trom  the  Army,  for  the  firft  Ships  we  might  deem 
tpr  his  Majefty's  Service  to  put  to  Sea  with ;  but 
"rather  to  make  a  Draught  from  them  for  the  re- 
maining Ships. 

And  upon  your  re-embarking,  a  fufficient  Num- 
;ber  fhould  then"  go  on  board  of  them,  to  fit  them 
■for  Service ;  for  which  we  apprehend  there  may 
^>e  wanted  near  five  hundred ;  and  that  will  be  a 
good  Reafon  for  leffening  the  Number  of  Tranf- 
ports. We  are, 
*-  SIR, 

Cuba,  Ocioberi^,  ly^u  Humbk  Servant  s, 

E.  Vernoi*, 

^  /^l**,  y.  T^^n  the  firft:  Advice  you  gave  me  of  the 
it)rders  you  had  fent  to  General  Guifey  I  fent  Orders 
^tp  Captain  DaverSy  by  the  Defiance,  to  write  to  Ge- 
neral Gui/e,  to  defire  he  would  let  him  know  at 
■what  Time  he   fhould  have  his  Tranfports  and 

Forces 


[  123  3 

Forces  ready  to  come,  and  that  he  would  take  Care 
a  Convoy  fhould  be  ready  for  him  againfl  the  Time 
he  Ihould  defire  it.  i 


-'n. 


^/  a  Council  of  War  held  in  the  Camp  in  the  Ijle  of 
C\ihAythe2iJiofOd:ohtt^  1741. 

WE  the  under- written  Members  of  the  Council 
of  War,  having  taken  into  Confideration  the 
Reprefentation  of  Vice- Admiral  Vernon  and  Sir  Cha- 
loner  Ogle^  that  five  hundred  Men  may  be  wanting 
to  be  put  on  board  the  Fleet  5  do  declare,  that  ia 
Cafes  of  Neccflity,  fuch  as  the  Approach  of  the 
Enemy's  Fleet,  or  the  Complement  of  his  Majefty's 
Ships  of  War  being  fo  much  weaken*d,  as  not  to 
be  able  to  proceed  to  Sea  without  the  AfTiftance 
of  the  Land  Forces,  We  are  of  Opinion  that  the 
faid  five  hundred  Men,  or  more,  fhould  be  lent  to 
fupply  his  Majefly's  Ships.  At  the  lame  Time, 
we  mufl  recommend  it  to  Mr.  Vernon's  Confide- 
ration, that  any  confiderable  Draught  from  our 
prefent  Force  will  reduce  them  fo  low,  that  they 
will  be  difablcd  from  undertaking  any  Thing  of 
Moment  againft  the  Enemy  •,  and  do  think  it  ne- 
cefTary  to  fignify  to  him,  that  they  are  to  be  re- 
turn*d  whenever  our  Commander  in  Chief  fhall 
require  it.  And  we  conceive,  that  the  detaining 
any  Part  of  the  Land  Forces  on  board  the  Fleet, 
without  his  Confent,  is  contrary  to  the  King's  In- 
ftrudions,  and  may  be  of  great  Prejudice  to  his 
Majefly's  Service. 

We  have  further  taken  into  Confideration  our 
prclcnt  Circumflances,  and  fhould,  we  think,  be 
wanting  in  our  Duty  to  his  Majefly,  if  we  did  not 
reprefcnt  to  Vice -Admiral  Vernon,   that  we  are 

every 


t  J24  ] 

vrtry  Day  more  and  more  convinced  of  the  Im» 
pradlicablenefs  (even  were  we  to  receive  a  ftrong: 
Reinforcement)  of  advancing  from  our  Camp  by 
Land  to  St.  Jago ;  and  that,  the  rainy  Seafon  be- 
ing over,  our  Contimiance^  in  our  prefent  Situation, 
cannot  (as  far  as  we  judge)  anfwer  the  End  pro- 
pos'd  by  his  Majeiily  in  fending  this  Body  of 
Troops  to  the  tVeJi^  Indies. 

We  are  therefore  of  Opinion,  that  if  the  Forces 
were  to  be  landed  in  fome  inhabited  Part  of  this 
Jfland,  or  elfewhere  in  the  King  of  Spain's  Do* 
minions  (fuch  as  may  be  agreed  upon  in  the  Prin- 
cipal Council  of  War-,)  the  King*s  Service  would 
in  all  Refpedts  be  more  efFedually  carried  on,  than 
by  our  Continuance  here  in  a  State  of  Inaftivity, 
which  we  think  neither  to  be  confiflent  with  the 
Englijh  Name,  nor  with  his  Majcfty's  Service. 

Tho.  WentwortHi 
B  Will.  Blakeney, 

c;  a.  lowther, 

^   •  James  Cockran, 

-  '  '  John  Cottrell^ 

Robert  Fraser. 


^-x. 


To  General  Wentworth. 

HAving  this  Morning  receiv*d  your  Letter  of 
the  2  ift  Inftant,  with  the  inclofed  Refolutioni 
of  your  Council  of  War  of  the  fame  Date,  I  im-  ' 
mediately  communicated  them  to  a  Council  \  and 
I  fend  you  inclofed  the  unanimous  Opinion  of  our 
Council  of  War  of  this  Day,  upon  having  taken 
the  fame  maturely  into  Confideration.     I  am, 

SIR, 

Boyne,  in  OmbtrlanJ  Ihxhonr  ^^^^  ^j^  Obedient^ 

*  on  the  South  Side  of  Cvha,  Humble  Serv^t, 

OB.  22,    17^1.  E.    V. 


^■jf/  a  Council  of  War,  held  on  board  bis  Majefifs  Ship  - 
\     ihe  BoynQ,  the  2id  of  OtiobcTy  1741. 

WE  the  under- written  Men;ibers  of  the  Couhcil 
of  War,  having  had  Jaid  before  us  the  Re- 
folutions  of  a  Council  of  War  held  in  the  Camp  in 
the  Ifland  of  Cuba  the  21ft  Inftant  (and  fent  to 
Vice- Admiral  f^ernon,  in  a  Letter  from  General 
fVentworth  of  the  lame  Date,  likewile  communi- 
cated to  us ;) 

•  As  alio  the  two  Letters  jointly  fign'd  by  him 
and  Sir  Chalomr  Ogle,  as  their  Opinion  what  might 
be  moft  for  his  Majefty's  Service,  in  cafe  of  any 
fudden  Advice  of  a  War  breaking  out  between  us 
and  France  i 

We  entirely  agree  in  the  Opinion  given  by  the 
Admirals,  as  moft  conducive,  in  our  Opinion,  to 
his  Majefly*s  Service  in  fuch  an  Event.  '?. 

And  upon  taking  the  faid  Refolutions,  and  Ge- 
neral iyentKvorth*s  Letter,  into  mature  Deliberation^ 
as  likewife  his  Majefty's  Inftruftions,  and  the  unar 
nimous  Relblution  of  our  General  Council  of  War 
of  the  20th  of  7«/y,  1741.  (which  Refolution  being 
(tr^  from  hence  by  Exprefs  on  the  30th  of  July^ 
now  twelve  Weeks  paft,  we  may  reafonably  ex- 
pe<5t  every  Day  to  know  his  Majefty's  RoyafP^-? 
fure  upon  it :)  ^^^^  /T/i'i 

We  are  unanimoufly  of  Opinion  ndw,^"as'  we 
were  then,  that  had  this  Attempt  on  St.  J  ago  been 
fet  upon  in  the  firft  Week  after  our  Arrival  here, 
by  a  thoufand  chofen  Men,  and  a  thoufand  Blacks 
having  advanced  with  a  Week's  ProvifionS  (as 
was  then  propos'd  by  Admiral  Vernon)  they  would 
have  fuccecdcd  in  the  Attempt ;  nothing  having 
occurr'd  to  us  fince  to  incline  us  to  alter  our  Opi- 
nions, which  we  think  fupported  by  the  Intelli- 
R  gcnce 


(    .26  1 

gcnce  procur'd  from  aJl  the  intercepted  .V/5«y5b 
Papers. 

-  We  have  all  of  us  ferved  the  CrOwn  often  in 
'thefe  Jimerican  Seals,  and  his  Majefty  having  judg'd 

;  v«s  of  Experience  to  ferve  in  this  Expedition,  we 
:have  always  been  forward  to  give  our  Advice  in 

:  every  Inftance  wher6  we  judg'd  it  for  his  Majcfty's 
Service  :  Tho*  by  his  Majefty's  Inftruiflions  it  ap- 
pears, the  Admirals  Orders  were»  to  be  aiding  and 
allifting  to  my  Lord  Cat  hearty  in  what  Ihould  be 
jiidg'd  proper  to  be  undertaken;  fo  that  the  point- 
ing that  but  was  more  properly  to  have  arifen  from 
the  General  of  the  Ariny.     But  as  our  Experience 

..in  thele  Seas  might  be  deemed  to  have  given  us 

.fome  more  particular  Knowledge,  we  are  very 
wiili«g,  on  this  and  ail  other  Occafibns,  to  give 
©ur  Opinion  of  the  Prafticability,  of  what  3pan\lh 
Places  lie  moft  open  to  be  attack*d. 

Torto  Belld  we  know  to  be  an  open  Harbour, 
.and  as  yet  a  dcfencelefs  Town ;  and  the  Troops 
■can  be  linded  there  for  marching  to  Pamina,  if 
the  Generals  approve  of  that,  after  our  having  re- 
ceived Advices  that  there  is  not  an  immediate 
Probability  of  a  French  War :  For  till  fuch  Advices 
arrive,  it  is  our  unanimous  Opinion,  we  cannot  be 
better  pofted  for  his  Majefty's  Service  than  we  arc 
at  prcient. 

And  we  know  the  Troops  can  be  landed  at  Leo- 
gane^  as  we  think  they  can  at  Petit  Guavey  (o  its  to 
enter  upon  immediate  Service  without  marching 
fhro'aWood.  But  wc  very  well  know,  that  to 
get  to  Panama,  they  have  much  longer  Marches^ 
and  thro*  much  lefs  prafticable  Paths,  than  to  get 
to  St.  JagOy  an  open  Town,  that  they  might  (in 
eur  Appreheniion)  with  great  Eafe  have  been 
Maftets  of  j  which,  we  conceive,  would  have  been 


mod  conducive  to  his'Mijeffy^s  SfefvicCi  and  tkc 
Honour  of  the  EngUjh  Name.  ".'.Y^ 

The  Fleet,  ii;i  cafe  there  be  rid  /^«iir^  Waf,  can 
likewife  from  hence  carry  the  Forced  %<iCaxthditnay 
if  the  Generals  think  themf?Ives  ftrong  enough 
to  attempt  it  again.  -But  we  know  of  no  Race 
clfe,  but  the  inconfideraWe  Barcadier  (rather  of 
Intelligence  than  Trade)  oi^Santa  Martha,,  that  tlie 
Troops  can  be  landed  at,  to  attack  any  ^paT0) 
Place  of  Confequence,  without  the  Trooi»  having 
more  Woods  to  march  thro',  an4  more  pifficyky 
of  Accefs,  th»n  to  St.  Ja^o. 
'  -put  if  the  Council  of  General  Officers  have  fuch 
Intelligence,  that  they  can  pioiht  out  to  us  any  fuch 
Place  as  they  are  defirous  to  be  carried  to,  they 
will  always  find  in  ys  a  Readinels  to  concur  in 
every  TWng  they  can  offer  for  his  Majefty's 
Service. 

Given  under  our  Hands  on  board  his  Majefty's 
Ship  the  Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Harljour  (formerly 
call*d  IValtbenam)  on  the  South  Side  of  Cuhy  the 
22d  of  OMer^  1 74 1 .  •    <^ '  -  * 

e.  OqLE,     "  J<i£f«oi^, 
p.  Mayh5,         '  "'■^- 
'■*  '  Charles  CoTtERECL, 


WE  the  under-written,  the  principal  Officers 
of  his  Majefty's  Land  Forces  ip  the  if^- 
Indiesy  cannot  without  great  Surprize  re;ld  tivt 
Refoiution  of  a  Council  of  War  held  on  board  his 
Majefty's  Ship  the  Boyne  the  2 2d  of  QMer,  1741, 
compos'd  of  Sea  Officets  only ;  who  ha7e  (as  we 
conceive,  quite  contrary  to  his  Majefty's  Inftruftions) 
taken  upon  them  to  judge  of,  and  to  pafs  Cenfurc 
upon  the  Proceedings  of  his  Majefty's  Land  Forces  -, 
R  2  and 


[    128    ] 

and  likewife  have  afigmed  the  Authority  of  the 
principal  Council,  nani*d  exprefsjy  by  his  Maje^y 
yi  his  Inftrudions,  for  confidering  and  determining 
what  Enterprize  fhould  b.e  undertaken. 
'•,  We  therefore  declare,  that  as  tl^e  Refojution  of 
'^he  /aid  CJounpl  of  War  relates  tp  Things  not 
properly  coming  u^ider  their  Cognizance,  we  do 
not  think  it  neceflary  (tho*  we  have  all  poflible  Re- 
gard to.  the  particular  Members  in  their  refpedivc 
Stations)  to  return  any  other  Anfwer  to  the  faid 
Refolution.        ,_ 
Dated  at  the  Camp,  the  25th  of  OSfohr^  1741. 
^  Tho.  Wentworth, 

Will.  Blak^nzy, 
,  a.  lowther, 

James  Cockran, 
John  Cottrell, 
Robert  Fraser. 


sr<?  General  We  n  t  w  o  r  th, 
SIR,       ~ 

I  Have  no  News,  to  fend  you,  by  the  'Prince  Frede^ 
rick's  Arrival,  "iyho  comes  to  me  in  a  bad  Con- 
dition. I  would  have  difpatch'd  her  diredly  for 
England,  but  Captain  Bofcawen  reports  her  not  even 
fit  for  that  :  But  as  fhe  muft  go  as  foon  as  fhe 
can  be  made  fir,  from  hence  or  Jamaica,  you  will 
be  pleas'd  to  prepare  your  Letters  for  gqing  by 
her.  V 

.  And  as  I  am  fending  a  Firefhip  for  Jamai(;a  on 
Monday  next,  I  defire  you  would  have  any  Letters 
you  intend  fending  by  that  Occafion,  ready  to  go 
by  Captain  Tomfon,,  in  the  Vefuvius  Firefhip,  by 
Monday  Noon  at  farthcfl ; '  for  the  Ravages  of  the 
Worms  give  me  more  Uneafinefs  than  |he  reft  of 
©ur  Enemies.  ..^-^..^.i,'^ 

M  I  our 


[  1^29  3 

'  '■  Your  Army-Money  that  came  by  the  Defiance^ 
I  am  told,  has  been  fent  for  5  but  if  I  had  noi; 
thought  on  it  more  than  your  Paymafter,  it  had 
gone  to  Sea  again  in  the  Defiance. 

And  as  the  Superhe  is  now  in  Harbour,  I  hop& 
he  will  take  Care  to  get  that  Money  out,  before  hij 
Majefty's  Service  may  require  that  Ship's  going  to 
Sea  again. 

And  if  it  is  judg'd  that  any  Application  may  be 
wanting  to  be  made  to  me  upon  it,  that  muft  be 
made  to  me  in  writing,  for  I  cannot  found  Orders 
upon  verbal  Meflages. 

I  have  got  my  Ships  all  near  compleated  to  a 
four  Month's  Victualling,  for  proceeding  to  Sea 
upon  th^  firft  Advices  we  may  receive  of  a  French 
War,  to  make  it  neceffary  ;  and  I  make  no  doubt, 
but  on  the  Return  of  your  Convoy,  you  have  pro* 
cured  a  fufficient  Recruit  for  the  Service  of  your 
Forces.  Which  I  thought  proper  to  mention,  that 
you  might,  otherwife,  think  in  Tim^,  of  fending 
Orders  for  having  more  Provifions  Ihipp'd  fo  be 
fent  to  you,  or  fending  Tranfports  for  them  from 
hence  ;  as  with  what  have  died,  and  what  may  be 
wanted  to  fupply  his  Majefty's  Ships,  to  be  fure, 
there  may  be  many  Ipare  Tranfports.     I  am, 

SIR, 

JBoyne,  in  Cumberland  Harbour,  Tour  mojl  Obedient^ 

Qfia,  Oa.  2^,  ij^u  Humble  Servant^ 

E.  V. 


-i)  y*?  G^wr^i  Win T  WORTH.  '  ^'- 

.     S  J  R, 

TT  bfeing  Night  before  Captain  Lee  brought  m^ 

-■•  my  Letters,  who  came  in  late  in  the  Evening, 

J  could  not  difpatch  him  to  you  fooner  than  this 

Morning.  ... 

•  ■    "  I  liavc. 


[  ^30  ] 

I  have  juft  read  over  my  Letter  from  his  Grace 
the  Duke  of  Newcafile,  with  the  Advice  of  a  Re- 
inforcement of  three  thoufand  Men  being  faid  to 
be  to  fail  from  Cork  fome  time  in  laft  Month, 
■which  arc  probably  in  their  Way  hither.  When  you 
have  had  Time  to  read  over  your  Letters,  I  doubt 
not  but  you  will  agree  with  me,  that  a  General 
Council  of  War,  agreeable  to  his  Majefty*s  Inftruc- 
tions  of  the  lotl^of  July^  1740!,  fliould  be  held  ; 
which  (hall  be  fummoned  accordingly  on  any  Day 
you  ihall  defu-e  \  or  if  you  approve  of  coming,  with 
Mr.  Blakeney  with  you,  it  can  bq  held  whenever  you 
come, 

I  have  had  a  flight  Fit  of  the  Gout  lately,  and 
you  know  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  is  a  little  lame  :  But 
if  you  and  Mr.  Blakeney  apprehend  any  ill  Canf«- 
quences  from  your  coming  fo  far,  we  will,  if  you 
defire  it,  make  the  beft  Shift  we  can  to  meet  you 
On  board  the  Firefhip,  juft  below  Captain  ForreJi\ 
Bomb-Ketch,  on  the  Morning  you  ihall  defire. 
lam, 

SIR, 
SoyM,  in  Cumberland  Harbour,      2''Qur  mafk  Ohedient^ 

Cuba,  oa.  26,  1 741.  i/«w^/(r  Servant^    vj  . 

E.V. 


To  Captain  Dennison,  ef  the  Augufla.    - 

By,  (^c, 
Xl/Hereas  I  have  Intelligence,  of  no  lefs  than 
^^  feven  Regifter  Ships  lying  ready  to  fail  from 
Cadiz,  as  foon  as  they  can  flip  Mr.  Haddock's  Squa- 
dron, fome  of  which  would  be  attempting  to 
pafs  under  French  Colours,  and  fome  under  Dnteh 
Colours ; . 

And  whereas  it  is  found  by  Experience,  that  eaf- 
linjg  on  the  Coaft  (yf  Rio  La  Hacha,  to  wtfKiwaFd  ef 
:    :  .  Sanfa 


[  r^i  ] 

Santa  Mariba^  for  getting  Intelligence,  is  tlie^com- 
mon  Courle  of  the  Enemy's  Ships  bound  for  G?r- 
tbagena  or  Porto  Sello : 

You  are  hereby  required  and  difedled,  to  j^dt  to 
Sea  to-morrow,  and  ftretch  over  diredtly^'  for  the 
Spanijb  Main^  as  your  falling  to  Leeward  of  your 
faid  Station  there,  will  ftill  put  you  in  the  Way  of 
intercepting  any  Thing  going  to,  or  coming  from 
Carthagena.  And  after  making  the  Land,  and 
knowing  whereabouts  you  are,  you  will  make  thfe 
beft  of  your  way  for  getting  int»  your  StatK)n  to 
windward  of  Rio  La  Hacha  -,  where  you  are  to  con- 
tinue your  Cruizing  till  the  toth  Day  of  Dirctmher 
next.  At  the  Expiration  of  which  Tefm,  or  fooner 
taking  any  confiderable  Prize,  that  tnay  require 
your  feeing  her  fafe  into  Port  Royaly  you  arc  to 
return  to  the  faid  Harbour  of  Port  BJtyal  in  Ja^ 
ntaica,  in  order  to  refit  your  Ship,  and  get  ready 
for  failing  Ibr  Englmd^  purfuant  to  fuch  Orders  as 
you  fhall  receive  from  me  after  your  Arrival  at 
Port  Royal. 

But  on  any  confiderable  Squadron  of  the  Ene- 
my difcovering  itklf  while  you  are  on  that  Sta- 
tion, or  any  very  material  Intelligence,  you  are  to 
endeavour  at  bringing  me  the  earlieft  Advices  of  it 
here. 

All  Sfanijh  Ships  or  Veffels  you  fhall  meet  with, 
you  are  to  ufe  your  utmoft  Endeavours  to  take, 
fink,  burn,  or  deftroy. 

And  as  to  che  daring  and  unauthorized  Attempts 
of  the  Subjects  of  any  Nation,  to  cover  and  proted 
the  Ships,  Perfons,  or  EfFafh  of  his  Ma|efty*s 
Enemies  the  Spmiards  ♦,  you  are  not  to  permit  the 
fame,  but  to  feize  the  faid  Ships,  Perfons,  or  Ef- 
feds  of  his  Majefty's  Enemies  the  Spaniards^ yfYi^t- 
ever  y©u  fhall  find  the  feme  on  the  Seas ;  as  you 
will  <U1  Ships  «nd  VefTcls  of  any  Nation,  that  you 

Ihall 


[   132  ] 

i^all  meet  with  going  to  fu^ply  his  Majcfty's  Ene^ 
mies  the  Spaniards  with  Contraband  Stores,  for 
their  being  further  proceeded  againft  here  accord* 
ing  to  Law.     For,  y<r. 

Given  on  board  tlie  Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Har- 
bour, Csff.  this  26th  of  OMer^  i74i» 

E.V, 


At  a  Council  of  War  held  on  board  his  Majejiy*s  Ship 
the  Boyne,  on  Wednefday  06t.  28,  1741. 

THE  Council  of  War  being  affembled,  his  Ma-' 
jefty*s  Inftrudions  of  the  loth  of  July,  1740, 
his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Newcajik*s  Letters  to 
Mr.  Vernon  and  Mr.  Wentworth  of  the  28th  of 
Augufi^  1 74 1,  one  from  Mr.  Couraud  of  the  fame 
Date,  and  two  from  Sir  Charles  Wager  of  the  iSth 
and  2 2d  of  the  fame  Month,  and  fuch  other  In- 
telligence as  was  come  to  Mr.  Vernon's  Hands, 
were  read. 

And  Mr.  Vernon  obferving,  that  his  Majefty's 
inftrudions  direded  him  to  be  aiding  and  aflifting 
to  my  Lord  Cathcart  in  whatever  Enterprize  was 
to  be  undertaken,  defir*d  Mr.  Wentworth  would 
be  pleafed  to  name  which  of  the  Places  mentioned 
in  the  faid  Inftrudions  he  thought  moft  proper  to 
be  attempted,  for  our  mature  Deliberation  upon  it. 

But  Mr.  Wentworth  deliring  further  Time  to 
confider  of  the  Contents  thereof,  and  of  the  pre- 
fent  Situation  of  Affairs,  before  we  came  to  any 
Refolution ;  the  Council  of  War  adjourn*d  their 
final  Determination  till  Saturday  the  31ft  Inftant, 
as  Mr,  Wentworth  dcfir'd. 

Saturday  Morning,  the  ^ijl  of  O^ober,  1741. 

The  Council  of  War  being  affembled  according 
to  Adjournment,  we  began,  agreeable  to  his  Grace 

the 


t^c  Unk^  of  Newca/ik*s  Diredioos  ia  hi.5  Letter^ 
above- mention'd,  to  take  into  mature  Deliberation',, - 
wjiether  we. were. in  dny  Condition  to,  undcrtivke;ari , 
Attempt  upon  the  7-/<3i^^»»^.  v.  r;  *»:     ..     -.,,0..^./' 

And  we  were  unanimously -of  Opinion,  ^ejh^^ 
not  a  Force  flifficient  for.fuch'  aii  Attempt,  ,4r,;hc?.* 
North  Seafon  did  not  render  all  Approaches  16"  ,^tj 
Impracticable.  ■■        j  1' 

I  .And  we  are  unanimoufly  of  Opinion, . that  tliia., 
farqe  Reafons  are  fubfifting  both, in,  regard  to^^' 
Fera  Cn/z  and  Mexico.        '  '■  ,,;  ,  \  :^t. j     ' 

In  regard  to  Carihagena, "iho*  the  fIarb(»Li^  be. 
open,  we  are  unanimoufly  <?f  Opinion,    that-  our 
prefcnt  Force  is  in  no  Sort  proportion^  to  fuch  an 
Enterprize.     And  even  with  the  Addition  of  ^  the^ 
Succours  faid  to  be  coming  (in  regard  to  the  in-*' 
creafing  Sicknefs  amongft  the  Troops   now,,, and 
what  it  may  be  naturally  apprehended,    from  tho 
Fatigues  of  a  Siege  in  forni,  may  happen  to  frefli 
Troops  in  that  unhealthy  Situation,    deftituti?  of 
fufficient  Supplies   of  good  Water,   as   we  hdve 
found  by  Experience^  we  canoot  ti)ii^\  fpcjb,  a^i  ]L!n-^ 
dertaking  advifeable.  ;  ,-:i;qz-)1'?.  ^■::?V.'  If-Yiiri 

And  in  regard  to  Panama,,  we  unanimoufly  agree,' 
from  the  beft  Advices  we  have  teen*  able  to  coiled, 
that  it  is  imtpradicable  to  advance;  with  Cannon  tjo^ 
Panama-,  and  it  being  a  fortified  Town,  with  above, 
forty  Pieces  of  Cannon  mounted  on  the  Ramparts, 
and  a  fufficient  Garrifon,  we  cannot  think  it  prac- 
ticable to  attempt  it  without  Cannon.  ;, 

And  the.Council  of  .War  finding  themfclyes.^j 
no  Condition  to  attempt  any. of  the  Places  abovc-j^ 
mention*d,  and  d^ily  weighing  the  materiaf  A'dr  •. 
vices  that  are  mention *d  in'  Sir  C harks  f Pager's 
Letters,  in  regard-to  the  Apprehenfions  of  a  French"^ 
War  i.  (in  which  Cafe,  the  Attempt  on  any  Place^to 
Leeward  of  Jamaica,  might  expofe  the  faid  Illand, 

S  "  and 


[  m  3 

and  all  our  Trade,  to  become  a  Prey  to  tKem  y 
whofe  Settlements  lying  to  Windward  of  us,  they 
could  make  fudden  Attempts  on  that  Ifland,  that 
we  could  not  return  to  prevent :) 

We  unanimoufly  agree,  that  in  our  prefent  Cir- 
cumftances,  we  can  do  nothing  better  for  his  Ma- 
jcfty*s  Service  at  prefent,  than  to  take  the  beft 
Methods  we  can  for  fupporting  ourfclves  in  our 
prefent  Situation,  till  the  promised  Succours  arrive, 
or  we  may  fooner  receive  any  other  Orders  from 
his  Majefty :  As  in  this  Situation,  on  Advice  of 
any  fuperior  Force  of  Enemies  coming  into  thcfe 
Seas,  we  fhall  have  a  Retreat  to  Jamaica  open  to 
us,  for  preferving  that  valuable  Ifland  to  the  Crown  j 
and  wc  cannot  be  better  polled  for  proteding  the 
'I'rade  of  his  Majefty*s  Subjeds,  and  intercepting 
that  of  his  Majefty's  Enemies. 

And  we  do,  accordingly,  unanimoufly  agree,  to 
proceed,  in  our  refpeftive  Provinces,  to  do  all  we 
judge  moft  prudent  for  maintaining  our  Poft  here, 
and  preferving  a  Communicati<m  between  the  Fleet 
and  Army,  till  our  receiving  further  Orders,  or  the 
Arrival  of  the  Succours  :  When  vigorous  Refolu- 
tions  nt^y  be  taken,  fw  advancing  to  make  our- 
felves  Mailers  of  St.  Jago^  and  fecuring  all  the 
Ifland  of  Quha  to  the  Eaftward  of  it ;  which  we 
apprehend  to  be  the  moft  that  can  be  done  with 
the  promised  Succours,  when  they  arrive. 

'-Given  under  our  Hands,  on  board  hisMajefty'is 
Ship  the  Boym^  in  Cumberland  Harbour  (formerly 
call*d  Waltbenam)  on  the  South  Side  of  Cuba^  the 
3ifl  of  Oiiokry  I'^^u 

'"     „  E.  Vernon, 

'-;  ThO.  WSNTWORTHj 

C.  Ogle,  j 

W.  Blakenbt. 


X  135  ] 
^0  CapP.V^i  L  L I A  M  L  t  A,  of  the  Bonetta  SIoojk 

WHereas  it  is  of  the  utmoft  Importance  to  his 
Majcfty's  Service,  to  keep  a  watchful  Eye 
on  all  the  Motions  of  his  Majefty's  Enemies,  for 
the.  preventing  of  Surprizals  from  them  \  as  Capt. 
Cleland's  Term  of  his  Cruize  is  cjroir'd,  and  I  have 
|io  one  but  you  ready  for  the  prelent  to  fupply  his 
Station ;  (tho'  you  arc  fpccdily  intended  for  another 
Service,  as  foon  as  we  can  have  another  Ship  in 
readinefs  for  fupplying  the  Station  you  are  going 
to;) 

You  are  hereby  required  and  direfted,  to  make 
the  bcft  of  your  way  to  take  your  cruizing  Station 
between  five  and  eight  Lcaguej  to  the  South-Eail 
of  Point  a  Bacoe^  lying  to  windward  of  Cape  Tibe- 
roon ;  which,  I  judge,  may  be  a  very  good  Station 
for  intercepting  any  of  the  Enemy's  Trade  coming 
that  Way,  or  getting  Advices  of  the  Motions  of 
any  of  their  Squadrons,  and  fc^r  bringing  me  the 
carlicft  Accounts  of  them ;  which  you  arc  imme- 
diately to  do,  upon  difcovering  any  confiderabk 
Force  of  his  Majefty's  Enemies. 

And  as  I  am  expecting  a  conHderable  Reinforce- 
ment, that  muft  pafs  by  in  Sight  of  your  faid  Sta- 
tion •,  and  as  it  is  of  the  utmoft  Importance  to  his 
•Majefty's  Service,  they  Ihould  not  pafs  by  you  un- 
feen;  you  will  carefully  look  out  for  them,  for 
delivering  both  to  the  Commander  in  Chief  of 
thofc  Forces,  and  the  Commanding  Officer  of 
their  Convoy,  my  Letters;  that  to  the  faid  General, 
advifing  his  coming  to  join  us  here  direftly,  and 
my  Letters  and  Orders  to  the  Commanding  Officer 
of  the  laid  Convov,  dire<^g  his  coming  here  di- 
re<a:ly  with  the  faid  Convoy.  In  which  Cafe,  you 
are  to  accompany  them,  to  condu6l  them  fafcly  to 
this  Port,  taking  particular  Care  that  you  do  not 
S  2  fall 


[136] 

fall  to  leeward  of  it.  And  if  you  iliould  meet 
any  fingle  VefTel  coming  Exprefs  with  Letters  and 
Orders  for  me,  iV  he  does  not  apprehend  the  Con- 
voy to  be  near  coming,  you  will  then  likewife  ac- 
company him,  for  his  fpeedy  getting,  here ;  or  m 
cafe  he  does,  fend  an  experienc*d  Officer  to  condud 
♦him  here.  il  t  >  u  »  ^l  /.     o^j 

'  All  Spanijh  Ships  or  VelTels  you  fhaH  meet  with, 
you  are  to  ufe  your  utrnoft  Endeavour  to  talce, 
fink,  burn,  and  dcftroy.  ;  ;i,  ::,  ^ 

And  as  to  the  daring  and  unauthoriz'd  Attempts 
of  the  Subjefts  of  any  Nation,  to  cover  and  proted 
the  Ships,  Perfons,  or  Effefts  of  his  Majefty's 
Enemies  the  Spaniards  -,  you  are  in  no  Sort  to 
permit  the  fame,  but  to  feize  the  faid  Spaniards 
Ships,  Perfons,  or  Effeds,  wherever  you  fhall  find 
the  fame  on  the  Seas  *,  and  to  C-ize  all  Ships  and 
.  -^efTels  you  fliall  meet  with  going  to  fupply  his 
-Majefly's  Enemies  the  Spaniards  with  Contraband 
•Stores. 

-  But  on  meeting  with  any  of  the  Guarda  Cofias 
of  his  moft  Chriftian  Majefty;  you  are  carefully  to 
preferve  with  them  that  good  Correfpondence  that 
ought  to  fubfift  between  Officers  in  the  Sefvice 
of  Princes  in  Amity  with  each  other. 

And  as  you  will  be  cruizing  in  the  Way  of  the 
/r^wf^  Trade,  you  are  to  ufe  all  friendly  Offices 
toward  them,  and  direft  your  Officers  not  to  har- 
rafs  or  rummage  any  fuch  French  Ship's  or  VelTels, 
as  give  you  no  juft  Caufc  of  Sufpicion  of  their  being 
going  with  contraband  Stores  to  any  of  the  Spanijb 
•Ports.  ;':rbr. 

You  are  to  continue  Cruizing  on  the  faid  Station, 
and  on  the  Service  afore-mention'd,  till  the  15th 
Day  of  this  prcfent  Month,  or  your  fooner  being 
relieved,  or  leaving  it  on  theOccafion  injoined  you ; 
at  the  Expiration  of  which  Term,  you  are  to  make 
^'      .  the 


[  137  ] 
the  beft  of  your  Way  for  joining  me  here,  and  re-i 
ceiving  my  further  Orders.     For,  ^ff. 
i    Given  on  board  the  Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Har* 
bour,  (formerly  called  JValthenam)  on  the.  South 
Sideof  C«^«,  thi3.5jft,pf  0^^fr,;:WU    ^ 

To  the  Hon.  the  Commanding  Officet  of  his  Majejiy's 
Land  Forces  cominz  to  the  West  I  n  d  i  je  s. 

SIR  ''   t'^ii'i'J  \>i-V/  IL'CY   iv  :^  - '. 

AS  I  fend  you  inclbfed  a  Copy  of  the^Reloru- 
tions  of  our  laft  Council  of  War,  held  on  the 
Information  fent  us  by  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Neiv- 
caftle,  of  the  fpeedy  Reinforcements  intended  to  be 
fent  out  to  us ; 

It  is  needlefs  for  me  to  add  any  other  Induce- 
ment to  you.  Sir,  to  engage  you  to  confent  to  the 
Commanding  Officer  of  the  Convoy's  proceeding 
diredly  to  bring  the  Convoy  to  join  us  here  j  as 
going  fo  far  to  Leeward  as  Jamaica,  would  be  the 
moft  fatal  Incident  that  could  happen  to  his  Ma- 
jefly's  Service. 

No  one  being  named  to  us  for  the  Command  on 
this  Occafion,  obliges  me  to^make  Ufe  of  a  general 
Dircdion.     I  am, 

SIR, 

Boynt,  in  Cumberland  Tour  moji  Obedienty 

Harbour,  Cuba,  f^^^^^i^  Servant, 

^ov.  I,  1741.  E.  Y. 

To  the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  Convoy  coming  out 
with  the  Reinforcement. 
By,  (^c. 
CEnding  you  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  Refolutions 
^  of  our  laft  General  Council  of  War,  you  will  fee 
how  much  it  is  for  his  Majefly's  Service,  that  you 
Ihould  not  lofe    a  "Moment's  Time  in  coming  to 

join 


[  n^  ] 

join  me  here  with  all  your  Convoy.  And  yon  are, 
therefore,  on  receiving  thefe  Orders,  immediately 
to  acquaint  the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  Land 
Forces  with  it,  and  defire  his  Confent  for  your  pro- 
ceeding accordingly ;  which  cannot  be  doubted  of, 
as  I  have  fent  him  likewife  a  Copy  of  the  faid  Ge- 
neral Refolutions  of  the  Council  of  War. 

And  you  are  accordingly  hereby  required  and  di- 
refted,  upon  the  Receipt  of  my  Orders,  to  make 
the  beft  of  your  Way  hither,  with  all  the  Tranf- 
ports  and  Storelhips  under  your  Convoy.  And  if 
any  be  feparated  from  you,  you  will  leave  a  Ship 
to  cruize  for  them,  and  bring  them  after  you »  and 
Captain  I^a  has  my  Orders  for  coming  with  you, 
to  pilot  you  hither,  taking  particular  Care  not  to 
jail  in  with  the  Land  to  Leeward  of  the  Harbour, 
for  fear  of  a  Lee  Current.  And  as  his  Majefty's 
Service  requires  it,  you  will  ufe  all  poffible  Dili- 
gence in  the  due  Execution  of  your  Orclers.  For,(=f<:. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyn^,  in  CuinberJand  Har- 
l)0ur,  Cub^i  this  lii  oi  November^  I74i' 

E.Y. 

Orders  of  the  fame  Tenour  with  thofe  given  to 
Captain  Lea  of  the  Bomb  Sloop,  of  the  31ft  of 
O^obery  were  this  Day  given  and  iffued  to  Captain 
jillen  of  the  Seaborfe,  to  cruize  till  the  15th  of  De- 
cember,  together  with  the  foregoing  Letter  to  the 
Commanding  Officer  of  his  Majefly's  Land  Forces, 
faid  to  be  coming  hither,  and  the  Order  to  the 
Commanding  Officer  of  the  Convoy  coming  out 
,Yi'ith them,  this  6th  of  Novemkry  1741.        E.  V. 

l^v^ 

io!;.:;^  ..        . 

,-,^  [.^  -To  his  Grace  the  Duke  e^  N  *****  *. 

My  Lord  DukCy 

MY  lafl  to  your  Grace  was  of  the  6th  of  OSfoier^ 
by  the  Pireband  Firefhip^  Captain  Barnard  \  z, 

Dojtlicatte 


[  139  ] 

Duplicate  of  which  accompanies  my  prefent  Letter 
to  your  Grace.  Which  I  chufc  to  begin  in  Time, 
for  going  by  the  next  Opportunity,  which  1  apprc" 
hend  muft  be  by  the  Frince  Frederick,  Captain  Bof- 
iiawen^  when  he  arrives  here,  from  the  bad  Accounts 
they  have  fent  me  of  her  upon  her  late  careening  : 
But'  flie  is  not  arrived  this  21ft  of  OMer,  when  I 
am  beginning  my  Letter,  which  gives  me  Ibme 
Uneafuiefs,  as,  by  the  iateft  Accounts  I  have  had, 
I  expeded  her  here  much  fooner. 

On  the  7th  of  OMer  arriv'd  hefe  Captain  Sro- 
derick  in  the  Shorebam,  who  has  been  cruizing  off 
Caribagem,  and  brought  me  a  certain  Account  of 
Don  Blafs  de  Lezoh  Death,  and  a  Letter  to  me  from 
his  Excellency  the  Vice  Roy  of  Santa  Fe^  which  I 
fend  your  Grace  incbfed  a  Copy  of;  as  likewife  of 
my  Anfwer  to  it,  which  fully  informs  your  Grace 
of  the  Particulars  of  the  Champana  Prize,  taken  by 
C^tain  Brodick,  being  Part  Bale-Goods  of  the 
Cargo  of  the  Galleons  going  for  Monpos,  and  Part 
Money  j  which  together  are  computed  at  near  four- 
fcore  thoufand  Pieces  of  Eight  Value.  And  I  hav<e 
fent  the  Shcreham  off  Cape  Franfois,  to  cruize  on 
the  Spanijh  Privateers,  that  arc  cruizing  on  our 
Northern-Colony  Trade,  from  that  Port. 

On  the  8  th  came  in  here  a  French  Guar  da  Cofia 
Sloop,,  commjurded  by  Captain  Olivier^  a  Captain 
of  Infentry,  that  brought  me  here  a  Letter  from 
the  Marquefs  de  Larnage^  that  I  fend  your  Grace  in- 
clofed  a  Copy  of  j  and  from  the  tri£ing  Contents, 
and  his  Condu^  here,  I  am  fully  fatisfied  his  prin- 
cipal BuHnefs  was  being^  a  Spy  on  usw  I  gave  my 
felf  little  Concern  for  the  Remarks  he  could  make 
on  our  Difpofition  i  but  as  he  went  privately  in  the 
Evening  to  make  a  Vifit  to  ;he  Camp,  the  hrft  of 
my  Officers  of  the  Flotilla  that  met  nim,  finding 
he  did  nvt  prejcend  to  have  had  any  Leave  from  me, 
.1   .  cold 


[  HO  ] 

told  him,  without  fuch  Leave  he  could  not  admit 
of  his  advancing  further;  To  he  was  prevented  going 
there  :  And  by  a  Letter  from  Mr.  Wentworth  af- 
terwards, I  found  he  was  defirous  he  fhould  not 
come  there.  And  he  foon  after  took  his  Leave  in 
a  Hurry  and  feeming  Confufion,  having,  as  I  appre- 
hend, had  Advice,  that  I  knew  he  had  a  Contra- 
band Cargo  on  board  i  which,  however,  I  had  de- 
termin*d  not  to  take  any  Notice  of  in  this  HaN" 
hour.  I  was  glad  he  was  going,  and  let  him  faif 
accordingly  on  the  lOth  in  the  Evening,  having, 
on  his  dining  with  me  on  the  9th,  given  him 
my  Letter  for  the  Marquis  de  Larnage,  with  my 
Complaint  againft  the  Governor  of  Port  Francois^ 
for  the  Countenance  he  gave  to  the  Spani/h  Pri- 
vateers, in  cruizing  upon  our  Trade  from  thence  i 
a  Copy  of  which  comes  likewife  inclofed.  And  I 
fend  your  Grace  inclofed,  likewife,  a  Copy  of  the 
Inforrnation  of  the  two  Englijh  Seamen  he  brought 
me,  of  the  Cargo  he  had  for  St.  J  ago  ;  and  I  had 
difpatch*d  Orders  by  my  Tender  Sloop  to  Captain 
'Long  of  the  Chejier,  to  have  prevented  his  going 
into  St.  Jago,  and,  on  fuch  an  Attempt,  to  have 
taken  out  of  him  his  Contraband  Cargo,  and  then 
have  left  him  to  proceed  as  he  thought  proper  J 
But  he  went  away,  Lbelieve,  fo  full  of  Apprehen- 
fions  of  his  Defigns  being  difcover*d,  that,  by  my 
Cruizer^  to  the  windward  of  the  Port  1  under- 
ftood,  he  ftood  direftly  away  for  Hifpaniola. 
'  And  I  am  glad  to  acquaint  your  Grace,  that  the 
whole  Convoy  of  Tranfports  I  fent  to  Jamaica, 
for  the  Ally's  recovered  Officers  and  Men,  and 
the  Supplies  of  Proviftons  and  Stores,  are  all  fafely 
tirriv'd  here,  without  any  Accident  by  the  Way.'^<^ 
*■'  yh^  Montague  return'd  from  her  Cruize  off  Point 
^d'Sacoe  on  the  10th,  and  ihtAugufta  from  hers  off 
"Cape  Fr^/:prV  the  nth,  having  chafed  a  Spanijh 
^#''  Privateer 


j^rivateer  into  Port  Fran^ois^  and  retaken  a  Prize, 
from  her,   and  alfo  taken  a  Spanifh  Carracca  Ship, 
of  three  hundred  Tuns  and  fifty-three  Men,  which 
ihe  fent  into  Jamaica.     This  Ship  came  from  the 
Havanna  the  5th  of  Auguft^  N.  S.  bound  to  the 
Coali   of  Carraccas,    but  lofing  her  Maft  in  her 
PafTage,  was  going  to  Cape  Franfois  to  refit :   But 
the    Governor   of    the   Havanna,    llraitenM   for 
Money,  had,  in  the  Spanijh  Manner  of  borrowing, 
taken  out  of  her  eighty  thoufand  Pieces  of  Eight, 
to  ferve  the  Urgencies  of  the  publick  Service  ;  by 
which  you  may  judge  of  their  extraordinary  Ex-, 
pences.     I  fend  your  Grace  inclofed,    the  Copy 
of  a  Letter  from  the  Governor  of  the  Havanna  to 
the  Governor  of  the  Province  of  Carraccas,    by 
which  you  will  have   Information  of  the  Spanijh 
Admiral's  Ship,  the  Invincible,  being  blown  up  in 
that  Harbour.     And  by  what  I  can  gather  from 
other  Letters  taken  on  board  of  her,  I  find  Don 
Rodrigo  de  Torres^  the  Spanijh  Admiral,  fail'd  from 
Carthagena  in  the  Sta  Anna  j  and  that  they  run  that 
Ship  aground  on  the  Rocks,  in  their  going  into 
the  Havanna,    and  had  beat  off  Half  her  Keel, 
for  which  fhey  had  been  oblig*d  to  careen  her : 
That  in  the  Invincible,   a  new  Ship,  built  at  the 
Havanna,  and  never  at  Sea,  there  were  blown  up 
four  Millions  of  Pieces  of  Eight :  That  the  Town 
was  deferted  by  every  Creature  whilft  the  Ship 
was  burning  :  That  two  Churches  had  been  ex- 
tremely damag*d  by  the  Blaft,  and  the  Dome  of , 
the  Principal  one  muft  be  taken  down  to  repair  it: 
And  that,  in  general,  all  the  Doors  that  were  left 
lock*d  were  found  blown  open,   the  Ship  lying 
within   Piftol   Shot  of  the  Walls   of  the  Town. 
Some  of  our  Letters  from  Jamaica  mention,   as 
Advices  from  Carthagena,  that  there  was  an  Ac- " 
count  there,   that  Admiral  SpinoUy  in  the  Europa, 

T  that 


t  142  ] 
that  went  from  the  Havanna  for  La  Vera  Cruz  to 
fetch  Money  from  thence,  was  loft,  either  in  his 
PafTage  going,  or  Return  :  And  other  Letters  on 
board  the  Augujia's,  Prize,  mention  the  Vice  Roy 
of  Mexkd*s  being  marched  for  La  Vera  Cruz,  with 
a  large  Body  of  Militia,  to  prepare  for  our  Re- 
ception thei*e.  And  I  am  perfwaded,  whenever 
they  can  remit  their  Treafure,  the  Crown  of  Spain 
iffiW  find  fenfible  Dedu6lions,  from  the  great  Ex- 
pences  they  have  put  themfelvcs  to.  Don  Rodrigo 
de  Torres  had  a  narrow  Elcape  in  his  Boat,  after 
he  got  from  his  Ship ;  and  ill  Fortune  foUow'd 
him  in  the  next  Ship  that  he  hoifted  his  Flag  on 
board  of,  which  had  her  Main-maft  carried  away 
by  a  Clap  of  Thunder,  in  two  Days  after  his 
icom'ing  on  board  :  So  that  the  fuperftitious  Spanijh 
Seamen  are  weary  of  him,  as  an  unfortunate  Com- 
mander. And  fome  Letters  mention  his  ftarting 
up  in  his  Sleep,  and  running  out  upon  Deck,  and 
crying  out,  the  Ship  is  haunted.  But  you  will  ob- 
serve, the  Spanijh  General,  Don  Francifco  de  Guemes 
y  Horcajitas,  flurs  all  over  as  flightly  as  he  can. 

Having  Advice  that  the  two  Ships  that  got  into 
Carthagena  were  ibon  bound  home,  I  difpatch'd 
the  Defiance^  the  cleaneft  Ship  I  then  had,  to 
cruize  for  them,  between  the  Grand  Camainos  and 
tape  Corien'ies^  which  I  judge,  in  the  North  Seafor^ 
to  be  both  the  moil  jirobable  and  the  fecureft  Sta- 
tion for  her  cruizing  for  them  ;  and  the  Augujia  is 
preparing  for  the  Sea,  -for  taking  the  Station  to 
windward  of  Carthagena  *,  (for  I  have  much  Diffi- 
culty to  patch  up  Cruiz^rs, .  to  fupply  all  the  Sta- 
tions in  which  I  am  defirbus  of  cdrefufly  watch- 
ing all  the  Enemy's  Motions ;)  and  I  have  fent 
the  i'ilbury  to  cruize  upon  all '  bound  down  the 
Old  Bahama  Ch.2i.x\nt\ :  So  that  I  think  tfiey  cannot 
well  move  any  Way,  but  I  will  have  a  Chance  for 

them. 


[  '43  1 

them,  as  long  as  I  have  Ships  that  c;;in  keep  the 
Sea. 

On  the  1 8th  in  the  Evening,  the  Chefter,  that 
is  cruizing  off  St.  Ja^o,  fent  in  a  Snow  here,  that 
he  met  with  off  there,  pretending  to  be  bound  to 
Miffijfippi :  But  Capt.  Long  having  obferv*d  therrv 
to  be  throwing  Papers  overboard,  and  fome  Co- 
lours from  the  Staff,  judg'd  to  be  Spanifh^  had  the 
good  Fortune  to  pick  up  fome  of  the  Letters,  that 
were  not  funk  with  a  Weight ;  which  gave  plain 
Intimation   of  their  being   bound  another  Way, 
and  having  taken  in  their  Cargo  at  St.  Sebaftian^^ 
and  Ferrol.     That  from  Ferrol  is  all  Quickfilver, 
brought  aboard  by  the  King  of  Spam's  Officers, 
and  ftow*d  very  carefully  in  the  Hold,  by  Spanifh 
Carpenters  brought  on  board  by  them  for  that  Pur- 
pofe.     And  it  appears  further,  fince  Capt.  Long*z 
lending  him  in  here,  that  the  beft  Goods  of  the 
Cargo  (as  Gold  and  Silver  Lace,  Flanders  Lace, 
and  fuch  like  fine  Goods)  were  taken  on  board  at 
St.  Sebajiian*s.    And  Mr.  Daragory  being  faid  to  be 
the  Merchant   (who  has  lately  been  detefted  of 
undertaking  to  convey  Cloathing,  Iron  aqd  Arms, 
for  the  Spanifh  Seamen  and  Soldiers  of  Don  Rodrigo 
de  Torres'^  Squadron,  when  the  Spanijh  Papers  anc} 
Pafs  were  all  found  concealed  in  a  hollow  Timber) 
That  gave  the  ftrongeft  Sufpicion  that  he  was  no\v 
attempting  the  like  good  Office  for  the  King  of 
Spain^   of  conveying  his  Quickfilver  to  La  Vera 
-Cruz  for  him.    And  tho*,  probably,  he  has  thrown 
into  the  Sea  all  his  Spanijh  Papers  and  his  Pafs, 
yet  there  appears  fufficient  Evidence  to  prove  it, 
even  from  his  French  ones..  And  I  fend  your  Grace 
inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  Orders  found  upon  Captain 
Behie^  commanding  this  Francois  Snow,  which  fuf- 
ficiently  prove  the  fame  :   But  he  having  cramm'd 
it  into  his  Fobb,   fome  Part  of  it  was  torn  off 

T  2  and 


[  H4  ] 
and  lofl:,  which  makes  a  Defeft  in  fome  of  the 
latter  Articles  \  but  the  Remaining  appear  plain 
enough.  And  there  was  found  in  a  Tub  of  Salt, 
a  Letter  from  Daragory^  to  Claret  the  Supercargo, 
in  which  he  mentions  how  the  three  thoufand  and 
nine  hundred  Quintals  of  Quickfilver  might  eafily 
be  ftow'd  in  three  Veflels.  It  appears  alfo  that  La 
Reine  des  Anges  loaded  her  Part  at  Ferroly  and 
faiPd  before  them ;  and  the  St.  Jean  Baptiji  they 
left  behind  at  Ferrol,  to  take  in  her  Part  :  And 
there  having  been  three  Wrecks  fecn  at  Sea,  in  the 
late  flormy  Weather,  by  the  Sheernefs^  and  one  of 
them  a  Snow ;  as  the  Qiickfilver  would  make  her 
very  labourfome  in  the  Sea,  if  fhe  was  catch^d  in 
that  Weather,  La  Reine  des  Anges  might,  as  pro- 
bably as  any  other,  be  one  of  them  :  And  I  hope 
the  St.  Jean  Baptiji  may  yet  fall  in  the  Way  of 
fome  of  my  Cruizers.  Your  Grace  has,  inclofed, 
the  Copy  of  this  Letter  from  Mr.  Daragory  to 
Claret  the  Supercargo. 

It  is  with  Concern  I  am  oblig'd  to  entertain  your 
Grace  with  the  widely  different  Sentiments  of  the 
Gentlemen  of  the  Army  and  us ;  which  I  think  I 
cannot  do  with  more  Impartiality,  than  by  fend- 
ing your  Grace  inclofed  Copies  of  two  Letters  from 
Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  and  me,  of  the  i6th  and  19th  of 
October,  to  General  Wentworthy  as  our  Advice  to 
him  in  cafe  of  having  any  fudden  Intelligence  of  a 
French  War  j  all  our  Advices  from  Jamaica  having 
mentioned  fuch  an  Incident  as  feemingly  unavoid^ 
able.  Upon  v/hich,  he  having  thought  prof>er  to 
fend  me,  inclofed  in  a  Letter  of  the  21ft,  the  Re- 
folutions  of  his  Council  of  War  of  the  fame  Date, 
on  his  communicating  to  them  a  Part  of  the  faid 
Letters  •,  I  laid  their  Refolutions  before  a  Council 
of  my  Officers  (as  he  had  done  a  Part  of  our  Letter 
befor?  hisj)  and  fent  him  our  Refolutions  inclofed, 

'■■■■■  of 


[  HS  ] 

of  the  2 2d  :  In  anfwer  to  which,  he  fent  me  in- 
clofed  a  Paper  fign*d  by  them,  of  the  25th  of  Or- 
toher^  cali*d  their  Sentiments  on  our  Opinion  :  Co- 
pies of  all  which  come  inclofed,  for  your  fuller  In- 
formation. 

My  Engineer,  Lieutenant  Innes  of  the  Grafton, 
with  her  Seamen,  has  near  compleated  a  very  good 
Fafcine  Battery,  being  four  Sides  of  a  Decagon^  with 
three  Guns  on  each  Side,  defigned  to  be  fupplied 
from  the  lower-deck  Guns  of  two  of  our  largeft 
Ships,  which  will  be  foifr  thirty-two  Pounders,  and 
eight  twenty-four  Pounders.  And  the  Timber  and 
Plank  is  all  cut  here  for  the  Platforms,  and  a  great 
Part  of  it  got  to  hand,  all  ready  to  be  laid  down  : 
Which  I  delay  a  little  for  the  firft  Advices  from 
your  Grace  i  in  order  to  judge,  whether  a  French^ 2X 
might  make  it  necefHiry  to  take  other  Meafures,  or 
our  having  certain  Advices  of  Succours  being  fent 
here,  fhould  make  it  proper  to  compleat  it,  for  the 
Defence  of  this  Harbour,  For  having  the  Stuff  at 
hand,  we  can  foon  lay  the  Platform  and  mount 
the  Cannon  ;  and  fhould  it  be  neceflliry  to  move, 
thefe  Materials  can  be  converted  to  the  Ufe  of  the 
Wharf  that  we  are  making  for  the  careening  our 
Ships  at  Port  Royal-,  where  fuch  good  Timber  as 
we  have  cut  here,  is  very  fcarce  to  be  got.  So 
that  there  can  neither  be  lofs  of  Time,  or  unne- 
cefTary  Expence,  whether  they  be  converted  to  the 
one  Ufe  or  the  other. 

On  the  25th  of  OSlober  in  the  Evening  came  in 
here  the  Bonetta  Sloop,  with  the  long-wifli'd-for 
Difpatches  from  your  Grace,  of  the  28  th  o^  Auguft, 
And  I  cannot  but  be  extremely  fenfiblc  of  the  great 
Honour  done  me  by  my  Lords  of  die  Regency, 
by  their  Approbation  and  good  Opinion  of  my 
^eal  for  his  Majefly's  Service  j  which,  to  the  bell 
gf  my  Ability,  I  ihall  always,  with  Pjei\furc,  con- 
tinue 


[  146  ] 

tinue  diligently  to  txert^  k>v  the  Honour  of  our 
Royal  Mafter  and  Prolperity  of  our  Country  5 
both  in  regard  to  my  Duty  to  his  Majefty,  and 
preferving  that,  good  Opinion  which  my  Lords  of 
the  Regency  have  fo  highly  honour'd  me  with. 

I  order'd  Capt.  Lea  to  wait  on  General  ^entworth 
very  early  the  next  Mcwning,  with  the  Letters  he 
had  for  him  from  your  Grace  and  others  j   and  I 
fent  a  Letter  to  him,  in  which  I  exprefs*d  myfelf 
perfwaded,  that  when  he  had  read  over  his  Letters, 
he  would  be  of  Opinion  with  me,   that  a  General 
Council  of  War  lliould  be  held  •,  which  fhould  be 
at  any  Time  he  fliould  defire  :    And  the  Copy  of 
my  faid  Letter  comes  inclofed.     He  fent  me  for 
Anfwcr,  that  Mr.  Blakeney  and  he  would  be  with  me 
on  Wedmjday  Morning,  the  28th  ;  when  we  met  at 
■a  General  Council  of  War  accordingly,  and  we  had 
read  to  us  your  Grace's  Letters  to  Mr,  pyeniw&rih 
and  me  of  the  28th  of  Augvji,  and  a  Letter  from 
Mr.  Couraud  of  the  fame  Date.     And  to  give  the 
Councl  of  War  the  beft  Light  I  could,    I  took 
the  Liberty  of  communicating  to  them  likewife, 
two  Letters  I  was  honoured  with  from  Sir  Charles 
Wager ^  of  the  i8th  and  2  2d  cA  Auguft  \  and  two 
Propofals  that  had  been  fent  to  hjm,  the  one  from 
Captain  Lea  of  the  Bonetta,  and  the  other  from 
Mr.  Daniel  Campbell.     And  Captain  Lea  was  called 
in,  and  examined  before  us  i  as  was  Capt.  Rentone  -, 
and  Captain  Allen^  who  was  lately  return'd  from 
New-Tvrk,  where  he  had  been  to  carry  the  General's 
Letters  to  the  Governors  of  the  Northern- Colo- 
nies ;  and  the  Officers  he  had  fent  them  by.     We 
had  then  read  his  Majefly's  lafl  Inftru(5tions,  of  the 
joth  of  7«/y,  1740  :  And  as,  by  them,  I  was,  with 
the  Fleet,  to  be  aiding  and  affifting  to  the  Com- 
mander in   Chief  of  the  Land-  Forces,  in  any  En- 
terpnze  this  Council  iljiould  judge  propereft  to  be 

undertaken  \ 


[  '47  1 
undertaken  -,  I  defired  Mr.  Wtnlwvrth  would  be 
pleafed  to  name  which  of  the  Places  meiition*d  ia 
the  faid  Inftructions  he  thought  moft  proper  to  bt 
attempt€d,  for  our  maturely  deliberating  upon  it. 
To  which  he  faid,  he  Was  not  prepar'd  for  that 
then,  but  defired  We  might  adjourn  to  another 
Day,  before  we  came  to  any  final  Determinations* 
And  I  defiring  he  would  name  the  earliell  Day  he 
thought  proper,  he  pitched  upon  SalMrday  the  31ft 
of  O^ober,  and  we  adjourn*d  the  Council  of  War 
to  that  Day  accordingly ;  and  after  their  favouring 
me  with  their  Company  at  Dinner,  we  parted  as 
we  met,  very  civilly. 

On  the  31ft  of  OSlohet  the  Council  of  War  re* 
affetnbled,  according  to  their  Adjournment ;  and 
Lieutenant  Lowtirer  w^  tailed  in,  and  examined 
before  us,  Mr.  Wentworth  having  defired  liis  At- 
tendance for  that  purpofe  i  as  was  likewife,  after- 
wards. Captain  Rentone^  an  *xperienc*d  Officer  m 
thefe  Seas. 

And  having  firft  calmly  delibefated  -on  feveral 
Propofak  that  Mr.  Wenlworth  d<;fired  might  -be 
Gonfidered,  for  landing  on  the  Leeward  Parts  of  this 
Ifland,  Bayamo  and  'Trinidado ;  on  their  being  lo, 
he  declared  himfelf  fully  iatisficd  they  were  ill- 
grounded  ami  inipradicable. 

The  Counc'l  of  War  then  proceeded  regularly 
to  take  into  Deliberation  the  "Several  Places  pro- 
pos*d  to  us,  in  his  Majefty*s  Inftru6lians  of  the 
roth  of  y«^,  1740,  in  the  Order  therein  diredbcd  : 
And  after  maturely  deliberating  on  tliem,  the 
Council  of  War  came  to  the  uHanimousRefokitions 
that  I  have  fent  your  Grace  inclofed  a  Copy  of, 
which,  i  hope,  will  aippear  to  be  drawn  cp  -agree- 
able to  the  Direftions  in  your  Grace's  \ti\  Letter 
©f  the  iM\  of  iAiiguft  laft. 

And 


[  h8  ] 

And  after  their  favouring  me  with  their  Corffi 
pany  at  Dinner,  we  parted  very  civilly  as  we  met. 
It  was  a  great  Pleafure  to  me,  that  at  the  fame 
Time  that  I  received  your  Grace's  Letter  of  the 
28th  of  Auguji,  I  receiv'd  one  from  Commodore 
Ledock,  of  the  ift  of  September^  with  the  good 
News  of  his  fafe  Arrival,  with  the  Squadron  I  had 
detach'd  home  under  his  Command.  And  I  hear 
by  the  Return  of  Captain  Allen  from  New~Torky 
that  the  leaky  Bomb- Ketch  got  fafe  to  Bojion,  where 
they  can  foon  give  her  a  new  Bottom. 

As  I  know  it  to  be  proper  for  the  unfheath'd 
Ships  to  be  difpatch*d  home,l  immediately  gave  the 
necefTary  Orders  in  it.  And  the  Orford  and  Prince 
of  Orange  are  failed  from  hence,  for  the  necefTary 
refitting  at  Jamaica,  and  under  Orders  to  proceed 
home  with  all  poflfible  Expedition,  under  the  Com- 
mand of  Capt.  Davers  in  the  Suffolk ;  who  is  like- 
wife  to  take  with  him  the  Prince  Frederick,  Captain 
Bofcawen  :  The  Dunkirk,  Captain  Cooper,  who  is  in 
befl  Condition  for  the  Sea,  is  under  Orders  to  go 
home  Convoy  to  the  Trade,  or  difcharged  Tranf- 
ports,  that  fhall  be  ready  to  fail  with  him  :  And 
the  Superbe,  Captain  Hervey,  goes  home  Exprefs 
with  our  Letters  to  your  Grace.  So  there  are  four 
ieventy-gun  Ships,  and  two  fixty-gun  Ships,  under 
immediate  Orders  for  proceeding  to  England  with 
all  poffible  Expedition.  By  my  former  Order  to 
Jamaica,  the  tVeymouth  and  Jerfey  were  to  be  en- 
deavouring to  careen  by  each  other,  and  the  Dept^ 
ford  was  obliged  to  be  careened  at  the  Wharf; 
(but  *till  my  next  Return  from  thence  I  cannot  tell 
what  they  have  been  doing  in  purfuance  of  thefe 
Orders  \)  The  Augujia  is  on  a  Cruize  off  Rio  La 
Hacha ;  and  the  Brijiol  I  am  daily  expedting  up 
here  with  a  Convoy  homjamaica.  And  your  Grace 
may.  be  afTured  thefe  five  Sail  fhall  be  ordered  home 

as 


[   H9  ] 
as  they  can  be  got  in  Condition  for  it,  and,  forcer- 
tain,  to  be  at  home  in  time  to  be  refitted  for  next 
Summer's  Service. 

I  muft  now  proceed  to  ftate  to  your  Grace  what 
will  be  our  remaining  Force  in  thefe  Seas  i  and 
what  that  under  the  Command  of  Don  Rodrigo  de 
Torres.  Wz  failed  from  Carthagena  with  twelve 
Sail  of  the  Line  of  Battle,  and  found  in  the  Ha- 
tjanna  three  Sail  of  Men  of  War  of  the  Line,  be- 
fides  the  Vizara  of  60  Guns,  that  was  at  ha  Vera 
Cruz  :  Which  are,  together,  fixteen  Sail  of  Men 
of  War  of  the  Line  j  and  I  take  them  to  be  full  as^ 
good  Ships,  as  the  fix^en  Sail  that,  it  is  faid^  will 
be  left  under  my  Command.  Of  this  Number,  he 
has  certainly  had  one,  the  Invincible,  blown  up  at 
the  Havanna ;  and  he  is  faid  to  have  had  the  Europa 
loft,  between  La  Vera  Cruz  and  the  Havanna\  the 
Vizara  damag*d,  by  running  a-fhore  at  La  Vera 
Cruz  -,  and  the  Sta  Anna,  in  going  into  the  Ha* 
vanna,  which  they  were  endeavouring  to  repair  by 
careening.  So  that  there  are  fourteen  remaining, 
and  of  them  two  are  damag'd,  which  they  are  en- 
deavouring to  refit.  And  I  have  the  Princefs  Louifa, 
that,  I  am  fure,  can  only  be  refitted  for  going 
home  in  the  Summer  ;  and  the  Strafford,  that  they 
begin  to  think  now,  by  her  careening,  may  be 
made  fit  for  Service  again. 

So  the  certain  Ships  for  Service,  are  twelve  and 
twelve  :  And,  as  I  apprehend,  from  the  Numbers 
of  fpare  Seamen  they  had  out  of  the  Men  of  War 
and  Galleons  deftroy'd  at  Carthagena,  they  mult 
be  infinitely  better  mann*d  than  my  Ships.  And 
when  it  comes  to  be  confider'd,  what  different  Ser- 
vices we  have  to  employ  them  upon  ;  then,  I  fear, 
it  will  be  found,  the  Superiority  of  Force  will  be 
very  greatly  on  the  Side  of  the  Spaniflj  Admiral, 
Don  Rodrigo  de  Torres. 

U  For 


t  '5°  i 

For  my  Orders  being  to  cruize  on  their  Trade, 
and  cut  off  all  Communication,  as  far  as  I  can, 
between  Old  Spain  and  their  American  Dominions  ; 
I  have,  for  the  prefent,  Cruizers  in  fix  fevera! 
Stations,  fome  of  which  are  above  two  hundred 
Leagues  afunder ;  viz.  One  to  windward  of  Rio 
La  Hacha,  for  intercepting  all  coming  from  Old 
Spain  for  Carthagena  or  Forto  Bello  ;  one  between 
Cape  Corientes  and  the  Grand  Camainos,  for  all 
coming  for  I^  Vera  Cruz  or  the  Havanna^  from 
Carihagena,  or  Porto  Bello,  or  the  Coaft  of  Car- 
raccas't  one  for  intercepting  all  going  down  to  the 
Havanna  thro*  the  Old  Bahama  Channel  on  the 
North  Side  of  Cuba ;  one  cruizing  on  the  Enemy*s 
Privateers,  and  for  tlie  Protedtion  of  our  Trade 
from  the  Northern  Colonics,  to  windward  of  Port 
Franfois,  where  they  have  found  Shelter  and  Pro- 
te(5lion  -,  one  to  the  South  Eafl  of  Poinf  a  Bacor, 
on  the  South  Side  of  Hifpaniola,  for  protecting 
our  Trade  from  England,  and  lying  in  the  Way  to 
meet  the  expcdled  Succours,  and  to  condu(5l  them 
here  >  ^^  one  to  cruize  off  the  Harbour's  Mouth 
of  St.  Jago.  And  as  fome  mull  be  cleaning  and 
refitting  at  Jamaica,  your  Grace  will  eafily  per- 
ceive, that  the  Force  remaining  with  my  Brother 
Admiral  and  me  muft  be  very  fmall.  If  at  Times 
we  can  have  Seconds  for  us  both,  that  will  be  the 
moll ;  and  we  mull,  I  believe,  be  often  but  with 
five  Sail  of  the  Line  between  us.  Whereas  the 
Spanijh  Admiral,  never  keeping  his  Ships  a  crui- 
zing, has  his  whole  Force  ready  for  proceeding 
together  upon  whatever  he  may  have  Orders  to 
undertake  :  So  that,  till  the  promis*d  Succours 
arrive,  I  think  we  may  be  faid  to  be  much  the 
.weak^.  I  am  fure  my  Brother  Admiral  and  I 
are  heartily  difpos*d  to  ferve  his  Majeity  to  the 
utmoft  of  our  Power,  with  fucli  Force  as  is  put 

under 


[  151  ] 

under  our  Command  :  But  as  the  F'leet,  thus  re- 
duced, will  not  require  but  one  Admiral,  I  hope, 
if  I  weather  the  Winter  out  with  it,  I  may  reafon- 
ably  expeft  to  receive  your  Grace's  Orders  to  be 
coming  home  in  the  Spring  of  the  Year ;  cfpecially 
as  his  Majefty  has  fo  cxperienc'd  an  Officer  in 
thefe  Seas  as  Sir  Chalorter  Ogky  to  take  this  Cofn- 
mand  upon  him. 

I  have  three  twenty-gun  Ships  (if  they  can  all 
be  made  fit  for  the  Sea)  and  the  Bonetta  Sloop  : 
Of  which,  the  Experiment  (clean'd  here)  and  the 
Bonetta,  are  both  defign'd  to  go  on  the  Expedition 
for  attempting  the  Settlement  on  Ratan  Ifland  ; 
and  for  Capt.  Lea  to  fee  what  he  can  make  of  his 
Advices  about  the  River  DulcCy  and  Province  of 
Guatimala :  Which  do  not  appear  to  us  to  be  well 
founded,  particularly  as  to  any  Infurredion  having 
been  amongft  the  Indians,  and  very  far  from  any 
News  of  their  continuing  fo.  But  I  will  give  him 
all  the  Opportunity  he  can  defire,  for  colledbing 
any  certain  Evidence  about  it  j  and  I  think,  that 
beginning  with  a  Settlement  at  Ratan  Uland,  to 
collefl  fome  of  the  Mufquito  Indians  there,  and 
fome  of  our  Logwood- Cutters,  would  be  the  pro- 
pereft  Foundation  for  undertaking  any  Enterprize 
that  Way,  whenever  there  fhould  appear  any  En- 
couragement'to  it.  And  in  my  Opinion,  nothing 
can  be  more  neceflary  for  fecuring  to  us'  the  Log- 
wood Trade  j  of  which,  I  can^  already  perceive, 
the  Dutch  are  going  on  apace  to  draw  the  principal 
Advantage  to  themfelves.  For  tho*  they  are  the 
Subjects  of  his  Majefty  that  tut  it,  they  fell  it  to 
any  that  go  to  fetch  it  -,  and  the  Dutch  are  greatly 
encreafing  in  their  Traffick  witli  them,  having 
here  a  large  Dutch  Ship  that  brought  us  Wine, 
that  is  going  down  to  the  Biy  of  Honduras,  to 
buy  a  Loading  of  Logwood  of  our  Logwood- 
U  2  Cutter?-, 


] 


[  '52  ] 
Cutters,  who  account  themfelves  their  own  Mailer? 
at  prefcnt,  and  fubjed:  to  no  Government.  But  a 
Settlement  at  Ratan,  prudently  manag'd,  I  think, 
promifes  fair  for  the  only  Means  of  fecuring  us 
the  Logwood  Trade,  and  excluding  other  Nations 
from  reaping  the  Fruit  of  the  Labour  of  his  Ma- 
jefty*s  natural-born  Subjedts. 

Colonel  Goochj  your  Grace  will  have  learn'd  from 
your  Letters  by  Commodore  Lefiock,  was  returned 
to  his  Government,  with  the  difcharg'd  American 
Tranfports,  that  fail'd  under  his  Convoy.  And  I 
believe  your  Grace  will  have  heard  from  him,  and 
on  all  Hands,  that  the  American  Forces  have  had 
nothing  to  complain  of  from  the  Sea,  and  have 
never  exprefs'd  themfelves  dilTatisfied  at  being 
employed  on  board  his  Majefty's  Ships. 

I  think  my  Inclinations  have  been  entirely  coiix 
formable,  to  what,  I  believe,  was  the  principal 
Motive  of  all  the  American  Officers  engaging  in  the 
Service,  the  Hopes  of  being  fettled  in  the  JVeft- 
JndieSy  and  in  Cul^a  preferably  to  all  other  Places, 
But  I  have  heard  fome  of  them  rnentioning  many 
Complaints  they  had  to  make  of  their  Treatment 
in  the  Army  •,  and  of  the  Difcontent  exprefs'd  by 
fome  of  tht  Europeans  (as  the  Americans  call'd  them) 
that  they  were  to  expofe  their  Lives  for  procuring 
Settlements  for  the  Americans.  A  jufl:  Occafion  of 
Offence,  I  fhall,  as  your  Grace  defires,  be  very 
cautious  of  ever  giving  them  •,  and  I  hope  that 
will  never  be  elleem*d  a  juft  Occafion  of  Offence, 
which  they  themfelves  don't  think  fo.  .-,  '• 

As  the  Affairs  of  the  Army  are  not  my  PrOMl 
vince,  I  have  thought  it  my  Duty  to  avoid  men- 
tioning any  Thing  of  them,  but  where  Ncceffity 
and  his  Majefty's  Service  appear'd  to  me  to  r&^f 
guirc  it.  *  ;^. 


[  '53  ] 

Captain  Mayne,  who  now  goes  home  Captain  of 
the  Orford^  being  the  only  one  of  our  Captains 
that  ever  was  at  St.  JagOy  your  Grace  from  him 
may  be  beft  inform'd  as  to  the  Entrance  into  the 
Harbour  :  And  by  this  Occafion,  1  fend  Sir  Charles 
Wager  (as  a  Sea  Officer,  mod  capable  of  judging 
of  what  I  have  laid  of  it  in  my  former  Letters)  %. 
Sketch  of  it,  as  drawn  by  Capt.  TiurelL 

And  if  you  think  proper,  your  Grace  may  afk 

Captain  Mayne^  with  whom  B r  L r  came 

a  PafTenger  in  his  Ship  hither,  whether  he  did  not, 
at  leveral  Times  in  our  Way  up  here,  liear  the  faid 
Officer  fay,  the  Army  vjould  not  land  in  Cuba. 

And  if  he  did  not  hear  him  fay,  after  the  Ge- 
neral Council  of  War  that  v/as  held  on  the  20th 
of  July,  which  he  was  a  Member  of,  that  the 
Army  would  not  move  from  their  Encampment  on  the 
River  Side. 

And  if  at  other  Times  he  had  not  faid,  that  the 
Spanijh  Forces  were  better  Soldiers  than  hjs  Majejiy's 
Forces. 

Reports  of  fuch  Difcourfes  were,  to  me.  Grounds 
of  Sufpicion  of  fome  form*d  Cabal,  that  might 
even  compel  Mr.  Wentworth  to  adt  under  their 
Direftion  •,  though  I  do  not  pretend  to  point  out 
who  it  was  composM  of.  But  I  think,  a  principal 
Officer,  throwing  out  Surmifes  that  have  been  verir. 
fied,  muft  know  fomething  of  the  Matter  :  And 
as  it  may  be  judg'd  neceffary  to  be  enquir*d  into, 
I  thought  it  my  Duty  to  mention  this  to  youi" 
Grace,  as  what  may  probably  ferve  as  a  Key  to 
fuch  an  Enquiry. 

As  to  your  Grace's  compaffionate  Concern  for  our 
fickMen,  I  mofl-  heartily  fympathize  with  you  j  and 
have  already  purfued  your  charitable  Directions  in  the 
Affair,  by  having  had  Perfons  confbantly  employed 
in  clearing  our  Ways  up  the  ieveral  Branches  of  thp 

River 


[  '54  ] 
River  that  tny  Ships  water  at  -,  which  we  find  to  have 
three  Mouths,  and  in  the  Iflands  formed  by  thofe 
Branches,  have  found  Supplies  for  them,  from  the 
great  Number  of  Cabbage-Trees  they  produce,  and 
the  feveral  Grovfes  of  wild  Oranges,  which  prove  a 
moft  feafonabie  Relief  in  our  prefent  reigning  Dif- 
temper  of  the  Scurvy.  And  we  get  them  likewife 
a  Supply  of  frefh  Fifh ;  to  which  I  have  added  a 
new  Regulation,  of  fupplying  Rice,  in  lieu  of  all 
Species  of  Salt  Provifions,  to  thofe  who  have  the 
Scurvy  ;  to  endeavour  at  attaining  to  an  Alteration 
in  the  Juices,  by  a  total  Difufe  of  Salt  Provifions, 
while  they  are  fo  affedted.  And  We  have,  befides, 
erefted  Huts,  for  conveniently  lodging  them  a- 
Ihore,  and  their  having  the  Smell  of  the  Earth,  and 
Opportunity  of  walking,  by  which  they  have  man^ 
of  them  reaped  great  Benefit.  I  am  perfwadcd,  a 
Negleft  of  the  Sick,  or  not  giving  them  all  the 
Relief  in  my  Power,  will  never  be  laid  to  my 
Charge.     I  am. 

My  Lord  Buke, 

ioyne,  in  Cumherldnd         ^'oUr  Grace*S  mojl 

Harbour,^..  Nov.  Bevoted,  and  mdfi 

^'  *"'^'''  Obedient.  Humble  SefvmL  ■ 

E.  V. 

A  Letter  from  Mr.  fVentworth  coming  to  my 
Hands  as  I  am  clofing  my  Packets,  I  cannot  omit 
adding  a  P.iragraph  of  it,  aS  a  Poftfcript  to  my 
X-etter  to  your  Grace. 

r  "  If  the  Sicknefs  increafes  two  6r  three  Days 
*'  more,  fo  much  as  it  has  for  a  few  Days  paft,  wfc 
*'  mull  neceffarily  come  on  board  the  Tranfports,  as 
"  we  fhall  not  have  People  to  defend  Our  Cannon. 
"  I  will  write  to  you  more  particularly  on  that  head 
*'  to-morrow." 

General  Went'-jDorthh  Difpatches  come  now  under 
Cover  with  mine. 

To 


[  155  ] 

To  General  Wsntworth. 
SIR, 

I  Have  this  Morning  recciv*d  your  Letter  of  t^e, 
^di  with  the  inclofed  which  I  now  return  you  ; 
and  am  heartily  concern'd  for  the  Account  you. 
give  me,  of  the  encreafmg  Sirknefs  amongfl:  your 
Troops.  But  as  you  mention  it  to  be  chiefly 
Agues,  I  imagine  that  may  proceed  from  the  ilidr. 
den  Change  of  Air,  on  the  Norths  coming  mi 
s^nd  believe  that  will  not  prove  a  fatal  Diflemper 
to  them,  though  it  may  diiable  them  from  Service 
for  the  prefent. 

The  late  Hears  we  have  had,  probably  have  put 
them  into  a  Way  of  lying  as  cool  as  they  could  at 
Night,  which  muft  now  be  carefully  avoided,  and 
Care  taken  for  their  lying  warm  in  the  Night,  as  a 
Guard  againft  the  cool  Air  of  the  Norths. 

The  Dire(5lions  you  have  given  for  fupplying 
Mr.  Z^w/J  with  Blacks,  are  fully  fufficient,  m  my 
Apprehenfion,  for  anfwering  all  Services  he  men- 
tions in  his  Letter  ;  as  none  are  properer  to  aflifl: 
in  rowing  of  Boats,  and  they  are  as  handy  as  any 
for  over-hauling  his  Ordnance  Stores. 

As  to  your  Weaknefs  in  the  Camp ;  for  Peribns 
to  do  Duty  there,  I  will  readily  fpare  you,  froi^i 
our  Capital  Ships,  all  the  Americans  or  Marines  that 
we  have  fit  for  Duty,  if  you  defire  it. 

But  choie  Ships  that  are  for  Service  in  cruizing 
on  the  Sea,  or  preparing  for  Relief,  are  fo  weak, 
they  cannot  be  fpared  from  them  :  Nor  could  we 
venture  at  it  from  our  Capital  $hips,  but  that  we. 
are  near  enough  to  you,  to  have  a  Supply  upon 
any  Emergency.  Our  Capita]  Ships  (which  I  am 
going  to  poll  anew  for  the  Defence  of  this  Har- 
bour) arc  but  four;  the  two  we  have  our  Flag*, 
flying  in,  and  the  two  feventy-gun  Ships.  And 
you  know,  the  Security  of  the  whole  depends  on 
our  being  in  Condition  to  defend  the  Harbour  : 

For 


1 156] 

j^or  which  Purpofe  I  have  erefled  a  good  feattery  for 
twelve  Pieces  of  Cannon  on  the  Point,  and  propbfe 
letting  about  erefting  another  upon  Capt.  Mayne's 
Ifland,  and  to  lay  my  four  Ships  in  a  Line  a  little 
to  windward  of  thofe  two  Batteries  i  which  will  be 
a  pretty  good  Line  of  Fire. 

And  as  you  know,  befides  thefe  Works,  I  have 
the  Protection  of  the  River  I  water  my  Ships  at, 
and  cutting  Timbef  there  for  Platforms,  on  my 
Hands ;  and  very  weakly-mann*d  Ships  befides,  and 
my  Men  fickly  too  as  your  Troops  are  •,  there  are 
no  Seamen  can  be  fpared  from  our  Ships,  which 
are  upon  the  advanced  Guard  for  the  Security  of 
the  whole. 

^  For  by  a  Schooner  brought  in  Yefterday,  that 
fliiled  from  the  Havama  five  and  twenty  Days  pad, 
it  appears,  that  Don  Rodrigo  de  Torres  was  then  at 
the  Havanna,  with  his  powerful  Squadron,  all  fi.tted 
and  ready  for  the  Sea. 

And  you  know.  Sir,  the  Situation  of  both  French 
and  Spaniards  in  Europe ;  and  that  they  had  powerful 
Squadrons  ready  for  the  Sea,  that  they  may  detach 
this  Way.  And  whenever  they  come,  though  met 
by  my  Cruizers,  I  can  have  but  very  Ihort  Notice 
'  of  them  before  they  arrive ;  fo  that  it  is  neceflary 
for  the  Security  of  your  Army,  as  well  as  of  his 
Majefty*s  Ships,  that  I  Ihouldbe  kept  in  Condition, 
on  my  advanced  Guard,  to  proted  the  whole. 
'  And  when  I  have  faid  this,  I  am  perfwaded  you 
will  be  thoroughly  convinced,  I  have  offered  all  in 
my  Power  for  your  maintaining  yourfelf  in  your 
Camp ;  which  I  look  upon  to  be  of  the  utmoft 
Importance  to  his  Majefty*s  Service-,  and  it  might 
dtfeat  the  Succels  of  the  cxpeded  Succours,  if  it 
Ihould  be  abandon'd.    I  am, 

SIR, 

Soyne,  in  Cumberland  Har-  2'our  inofl  Obedient^ 

"boor,  ^c.  AW.  4. 1741,  Humble  Servant,     —^ 

E.  V. 


[  'J7  ] 

To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

IHave  the  Favour  of  yours  of  the  5th ;  which  it 
gave  me  much  Pleafure  to  receive,  on  finding 
you  determined  in  your  Opinion,  for  not  quitting 
your  prefent  Poll  while  you  have  Men  to  maintain 
it  •,  and  that  you  had  hopes,  as  the  Diftempers 
your  Men  were  feized  with  were  principally  Agues* 
that  many  of  them  will  recover  ;  which  Bedding, 
and  otherwife  contriving  to  have  them  lye  warm  in 
the  Nights,  will)  I  believe,  greatly  contribute  to. 

And  as,  on  Advice  of  aWar  with  France,  it  might 
be  nceelTary  to  re-embark  fpecdily,  for  making 
them  a  Vifit  as  foon  as  poffible  i  I  fubmit  it  to 
you,  whether  it  might  not  be  proper  for  Mr.  L — s 
to  be  re-imbarking  fome  of  his  heavy  Cannon,  as 
that  probably  cannot  be  wanted  for  the  Defence 
of  the  Camp  •,  and  indeed  I  never  could  well  con- 
ceive why  he  landed  it  at  all. 

Captain  Rentone  tells  me,  he  has  been  to  wait  on 
you,  as  you  defired,  for  Ihewing  you  the  Road  for 
coming  to  the  Bay  where  he  rides,  from  the 
Camp  J  which,  he  fays,  migh*:  eafily  be  made  a 
very  good  Road,  with  a  few  Negroes. 

You  may  remember,  Sir,  I  mention*d  to  you 
one  Incident  that  might  make  it  neceflary  for  the 
ipeedy  embarking  a  Part  of  the  Troops  from 
thence,  to  aflift  on  board  the  Ships  in  the  Defence 
of  this  Harbour  j  which  was,  the  Enemy's  fud- 
denly  pufhing  into  this  Harbour.  For  they  would 
then  lye,  in  Adtion  with  us,  between  the  River 
your  Tranfports  ride  in,  and  us,  and  ronfequently, 
cut  off  all  Communication  that  Way  j  which  would 
make  it  neceffary  to  fhip  the  Men  off  (for  affifting 
us)  from  that  Bay  j  from  whence  they  would 
come  fafely  to  us. 

X  The 


[  'S8] 

The  Cbefter  I  Ihallfend  for  Jamaica  on  Monday^ 
fo  you  will  be  pleafed  to  fend  your  Letters  in  time 
to  go  by  her  :  And  Captain  Long  will  have  Orders 
to  take  under  his  Convoy  all  the  difchargcd  Tranf- 
ports  that  fhall  be  then  ready  to  fail  with  him } 
And  what  cannot  get  ready  to  fail  with  him,  Ihall 
be  put  under  the  Care  of  the  next  Ship  I  have  oc- 
cafion  to  fend  that  Way. 

I  fend  you  inclofed  a  Copy  of  the  Intelligence 
Lieutenant  Low/z&^r  has  picked  up  from  theMafter 
of  the  Schooner,  lately  taken  coming  from  the 
Havanna  -,  by  which  you  will  fee  there  is  good  Rea- 
fon  for  me  to  keep  myfelf  as  ftrong  as  I  can  here, 
with  regard  to  other  Services  injoined  me. 

I  took  the  Liberty,  Sir,  at  our  late  Council  of 
War,  to  fuggeft  to  you  my  Opinion,  that  in  your 
prefent  Condition,  you  are  not  to  think  of  fending 
away  either  Officers  or  Men  yet,  for  the  Service  of 
Recruiting  j  and  I  cannot  but  repeat  to  you.  Sir, 
my  Advice,  for  your  fufpending  it,  at  leafl,  till  tha 
Arrival  of  the  Succours,  or  the  next  Advices  from 
England  •,  which  I  think  mofl  for  his  Majefty*s 
Service.  And  I  will  anfwer  for  it,  they  will  get 
to  England  near  as  foon,  if  not  fooner,  than  by 
your  fending  them  away  in  the  Tranfports  now ; 
as  I  fhall  keep  one  of  the  befl  unfheath'd  Ships,  for 
going  diredly  with  them. 

As  to  the  Memorial  to  you  from  the  Wine-Sut- 
kr,  I  do  not  look  upon  him  to  be  within  my  Pro- 
mife  of  Proteftion  to  thofe  that  come  with  Supplies 
6f  Provifions ;  as  that  is  fuch,  that  the  Men's  Healths 
would  be  better  prefcrved  without  it :  Particularly, 
his  four  Cargo,  which  has  occafioned  his  lying  here 
fo  long,  is  not  fit  to  be  drunk.  And  I  hope  you 
will  believe  me.  Sir,  that  if  tliere  had  been  any 
Reafon  on  his  Side,  I  fhould  have  hearkened  to  it. 

I  was 


f  '59  ] 

I  was  concern'd  to  hear  of  Mr.  Blakeney's  being 
out  of  order ;  and  heartily  wifh  for  his  fpeedy  Re- 
covery, and  for  your  Continuance  in  good  Health, 
which  it  has  pieafed  God  fo  wonderfully  to  blels 
us  both  with.    I  am, 

SIR, 

Boyne,  in  Cumherlmd  ToWT  fHoft  Obedient^ 

Harbour,  ^c  Hwnble  Servant, 

^ov.  6,  1 741.  E    V 


Txi  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

UPON  the  Receipt  of  your  Letter,  with  the 
inclofed  Refolutions  of  your  Council  of  War, 
and  Opinion  of  your  Surgeons,  and  the  Letters 
from  Mr.  Wallace  relative  thereto,  fent  me  by  Mr. 
Wallace  by  your  order ; 

I  could  not  but  think  it  of  Confequence  to  his 
Majefty*s  Service,  immediately  to  advife  with  Sir 
Chaloner  Ogle  upen  them. 

And  we  cannot  but  exprels  ourfelves  under  a 
hearty  Concern,  for  your  finding  yourfelves  under 
a  Neceflity  of  leaving  the  advantageous  Poll  you 
are  incamp'd  in ;  as  we  fear,  on  Refolutions  coming 
to  be  taken  for  returning  to  it  again,  it  may  coft 
fome  Men's  JJves  to  regain  it. 

You,  Sir,  I  find,  think,  that  according  to  the 
Advices  I  fent  you,  it  may  not  be  improbable,  that 
Don  Rodrigo  de  'Torres  may  think  of  moving  this 
Way  j  and  that  we  ought  to  be  putting  ourfelves 
in  a  Condition  to  receive  him  ;  which  is  what  we 
always  had  in  View,  and  we  are  now  new-pofting 
our  Ships  for  that  purpofe.  For  which  Services, 
and  the  many  others  we  have  (upon  thefe  Advices 
from  you)  to  be  making  Provifion  in,  it  is  im- 
poflible  for  us  to  be  fparing  any  of  oirr  few  Long- 
X  2  boats 


[  .60  ] 

boats  to  be  upon  Service  in  the  Re-imbarking  ycur 
Cannon  and  Baggage  :  And  we  are  clearly  of  Opi-. 
nion,  you  can  have  no  Occafion  for  them,  as  the 
Longboats,  and  other  Boats  from  your  Tranfports, 
are  more  than  fufficient  for  that  Pqrpofe.  And 
that  you  may  not  want  their  Service,  we  cannot 
but  ahfolutely  advife,  that  no  Tranfports  fhould 
come  out  of  the  River  'till  your  Cannon  and 
Baggage  is  all  re-embark'd ;  which  may  be  done, 
(under  the  Direction  of  a  prudent  Officer,  and 
with  the  Affiftance  of  the  Blacks  to  Man  the  Boats 
of  thofe  that  are  weakly-handed)  in  a  very  fhort 
Time. 

And  for  the  Diftribution  of  your  well  Men  on 
board  our  Ships,  to  aflift  in  the  Defence  of  them, 
we  cannot  but  heartily  agree  with  you  in  the  Ne- 
ceffity  there  may  be  for  it ;  but  think  that  Difpo- 
fition  can  be  more  properly  made  at  a  Leifure 
Time  for  it,  when  the  Tranfports  have  brought 
them  all  out  into  the  Bay. 

So  muft  beg  Leave  to  repeat  our  former  Opinion 
given  you,  that  after  the  Re-embarkation  of  your 
Cannon  and  Baggage,  it  would  be  proper  for  all 
your  well  Men  to  be  referv'd  for  your  Rear-Guard, 
and  to  march  together  in  a  Body  dired:ly  on  board 
fuch  Tranfports  as  are  referv^d  for  them  ;  which 
will  be  but  the  Work  of  a  few  Hours.  And  we 
believe  you  will  agree  with  us,  the  well  Men  mufl 
necefTarily  be  referv'd  for  fuch  Service,  for  the 
Security  of  the  whole. 

If  you  think  the  Affiftance  of  one  of  our  Officers 
may  be  neceffary  to  you,  for  tlie  prudent  Direflion 
of  the  whole,  we  fhall  be  ready  to  fend  you  one, 
on  your  defiring  it.  But  in  fuch  Cafe,  we  hope 
he  will  have  a  full  Authority  from  you  over  all 
the  Officers  of  the  Train,  and  others  neceffary  to 

be 


[   '6.  ] 

be  employ'd  in  it ;  or  elfe,  their  Cavils  may  dift 
appoint  the  whole. 

We  thank  you  for  the  Direftions  you  have  given 
to  the  Tranfports,  for  receiving  our  Lumber,  to 
clear  our  Ships  for  Service.  As  the  Chefier  muft 
fail  to-morrow,  for  carrying  the  neceflary  Orders  to 
be  fent  to  Jamaica  for  ftrengthening  ourfelves  all 
we  can,  we  hope  what  Letters  you  may  have  for 
Jamaica  will  be  down  by  to-morrow  Noon.  We 
are, 

SIR, 

Boyne,  Cumberland  Xour  mofi  Obedient, 

Harbour,  l£c.  Humbk  Servants, 

Nov.  8,   1741.  T?    17- 

'^  L.    VERNON, 

C.  Ogle. 


'To  General  Wentworth. 
SIR, 

THIS  Morning  having  brought  in  here  Capt. 
Perez,  in  a  large  Canoe,  with  nSpaniJkFhgof 
Truce,  from  St.Jago ;  fwhich  Captain  Perez  was, 
fomeTime  fmce,  fent  from  hence  by  Capt.  Mofiyn, 
with  your  Approbation,  and  at  the  Governor  of 
St.  Jago*s  Rcqueft,  in  Part  of  the  Exchange  for 
the  fixty-four  Englijh  Prifoners  he  had  releas*d  :) 

We  thought  it  proper,  immediately  to  difpatch 
Capt.  Rentone  to  you,  who  was  the  Tranflator  of 
the  faid  Letter,  with  a  Copy  of  his  Tranflation 
of  it. 

And  as  one  feeming  Part  of  the  faid  Letter,  is 
for  procuring  Wine  for  his  own  Table,  we  hav^ 
judg'd,  that  (with  your  Approbation)  the  beft  Way 
of  anfwering  to  that  would  be,  to  fend  him  a  Pipe 
of  Wine  for  a  Prefent,  for  the  Ufe  of  his  own 
Table ;  and  to  defire  him,  that  he  would  permit 
their  Hunters  to  bring  us  in  fome  Beeves,  for  the 

Ufe 


[    l62    ] 

Ufe  of  our  Tables ;  which  we  fhall  honourably  pay 
them  for  to  their  Satisfaftion ;  and  fhall  be  proud 
to  pleafure  him  with  another  Pipe  of  Wine,  when- 
ever he  will  favour  us  with  letting  us  know  it  would 
be  agreeable  to  him  r  And  to  avoid  faying  any 
Thing  to  that  Part  of  his  Letter,  where  he  defir'd 
a  PafTport  for  the  French  Colonies. 

But  in  regard  to  Exchange  of  Prifoners,  to  let 
him  know,  we  have  an  equal  Regard  to  all  who  are 
our  Royal  Mailer's  Subjeds  -,  and  fhall  willingly 
accept  thofe  taken  by  his  Excellency  Don  Rodrigo 
de  Torres  in  his  PalTage  here,  in  the  Exchange  s 
and  that  when  they  will  lend  us  their  Numbers,  and 
name  a  Place  for  the  Exchange,  we  fhall  be  ready 
to  facilitate  it  all  in  our  Power. 

We  are  glad  to  hear  you  find  your  Officers  fuf- 
ficiently  experienc*d  for  direfting  the  fhipping  off 
your  Cannon  ;  and  the  Orders  are  given,  as  you 
defir'd,  for  preventing  any  of  the  Tranfports 
coming  out  of  the  River,  till  alF  your  Cannon  and 
Baggage  are  re-embark*d  ;  and  the  very  flopping 
the  Tranfports,  mention*d  in  Mr.  lVaUace*s  Letter 
to  have  been  difcharg'd,  is,  of  itfelf,  a  larger 
Supply  of  Boats,  than  we  have  for  all  the  various 
Ufes  we  have  to  apply  them  upon.     We  are, 

SIR, 

Cumherland,  m Qtmhsrland  Har-  jr^^^  ^a  QJ^edient, 
hour  (formeny  call  d  Walthe'  u      ij     c.  4. 

nam)   on  thJ  South  Side  of  ^«^^^  Servams, 

Cuba,  Nov.  lO,   1741.  E.   VERNON, 

C  Oglx. 

P.  S.  We  fliatl  be  glad  to  know  your  Sentiments 
by  the  Return  of  Captain  Rentone, 


to 


[  i63  ] 

To  General  Wentworth," 
SIR, 

IReceiv'd  yours  of  the  loth  laft  Night  by  Lieiit. 
JVilliams ;  and  but  juft  before  had  an  Account 
from  our  Agent,  Mr.  Maynard,  of  fifty  fick  Men 
being  fcnt  on  board  the  St.  Elizabeth^  one  of  the 
Tranfports  you  had  allotted  us  for  bringing  our 
Provifions  fromjamaica,  which  we  have  not  yet  been 
able  to  clear.     So  that  thefe  Men  are  come  to  a 
Ship  without  any  Provifions  on  board,  and  lying 
the  fartheft  diftant  from  the  Camp  •,    tho*  I  had 
requefted  the  Favour  of  you  (for  giving  the  Dif^ 
patch  you  defire)  that  you  would  be  pleas'd  to 
put  all  your  Men,  for  the  prefent,    on  board  the 
many  empty  Tranfpoits  you  have  in  the  River,  to 
be  brought  out  into  this  Harbour  in  them :  Where 
they  can  be  afterwards,  at  Leifure,  fhifted  into  the 
Dorfetjhire,  Margaret,  and  St.  Elizabeth^  that  arc 
riding  here ;  two  with  the  Provifions  for  our  Ships, 
and  the  Dorfetjhire  with  all  the  Spanijh  Prifoners, 
which  I  have  collefted  there,  on  the  Petition  of  all 
the  Matters  of  the  Tranfports  and  Storefhips,   to 
enable  them  to  fail  their  Ships  when  you  have 
embark*d  your  Forces :  And  they  are  there  at  their 
joint  Requett  and  Mr.  ff^allace*B.     And  therefore, 
for  God*s  Sake,  let  me  defire  you  to  prevent  your 
Officers  from  committing  fuch  Irregularities,   artd 
a6ting  fo  inconfiderately,  as  to  throw  all  Things 
into  Confufion,  and  to  occafion  unnecefTary  Delays, 
by  fending  Men  fuch  a  Diflanceoff  to  Ships  not  yet 
ready  to  receive  them,  when  they  have  fuch  a  Num- 
ber of  Ships  at  hand,  that  would  greatly  facilitate 
Difpatch. 

I  have  put  two  of  our  Longboats  (tho*  we  can  ill 
fpare  them,  and,  I  am  farisfied,  under  prudent  Ma* 
nagement  you  could  not  want  them)  under  the 
Orders  of  Capt.  Renione,  that  he  may  give  the  ne- 

ccflary 


[  i64  ] 

ceiTary  Direcbions  with  them  for  getting  off  your 
Cannon  •,  and  he  will  readily  give  you  his  Advice  in 
any  Thing  you  defire,  being  a  prudent  and  ex- 
perience Officer. 

I  fear  Part  of  this  Confufion  and  Delay  is  owing 

to  your  M yL s  :  For  by  my  Obfervations, 

and  my  Accounts  of  his  Proceedings,  I  am  fatisfied, 
that  if  his  Majefty  had  lock'd  him  up  in  the 
Tower,  the  Service  had  been  better  carried  on, 
and  there  had  been  much  lefs  Wafte  and  Lofs  of 
Stores. 

.  I  have  ftrengtheh*d  the  Flotilla  by  a  Detachment 
of  Soldiers,  and  fhall  take  care  to  get  our  Provi- 
fions  out  of  your  two  Tranfports  as  fall  as  I  can. 
I  am, 

,     SIR, 

Boyne,  Cumberland  Xour  mofi  Obedient^ 

Harbour,  ^c.  Uumhk  Servant, 

Nov.     II,     I74I.  £        y 


To  Capt.  Forrest,  of  the  Alderncy  Bomb. 

FOR  the  better  fecuring  the  Re-embarkation  of 
the  Forces  from  the  Camp  j 
You  are  hereby  required  and  direded,  to  receive 
on  board  his  Majefty's  Bomb-Veffel  the  Alderney 
(under  your  Command)  from  the  A^^»/,  a  Lieutenant, 
two  Serjeants,  two  Corporals,  a  Drummer,  and 
twenty-four  private  Men,  belonging  to  Colonel 
Cooch's  Regiment,  and  bear  them  for  Viduals  only 
while  they  continue  on  board!     For,  (^c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Har- 
bour (formerly  call'd  JValthenam)  on  the  South 
Side  of  Cuka^  this  loth  of  November,  1741. 

E,  K 

To 


[  '6s  ] 

rA'j  ^^'    ''■:'  i'  JC3L<.-r'5  -di  hr.rj.    :r- 
\7'OU  are  hereby  required  and  directed,  to  take 

^  the  Command  of  the  Flotilla  upon  yoii,  fof, 
covering  the  Tranfports,  and  preventing  all  Sur-/r 
prizes  in  the  River.  And  1  have  likewife  order^cj, 
the  Boyne*s  Longboat,  and  the  Qmkr land's,  witly> 
an  eight-oar*d.Boat,  and  a  Lieutenant  to  each,  to' 
be  attendant  on  your  Orders^'  for  the  fafe  ancl^ 
Ipecdy  Re-enibarkation  of  the  Cannon,  fince  the- 
General  is  determin*d  to  leave  his  Camp.  You  ^re 
likewife  to  give  General  PFentworib  your  beft  Ad-*" 
vice  and  Afliftance,-  in  every  Thing  where  he  ihallj 
defire  it  of  you..;^",;.:cy  ,.;  ,^  ^rj  ^,,1;^^ 
Thefe  Boats  are  to  be  c3X^\cfor  under  your 
Diredion  only,  I  having  fumcieritly  experiehq'd 
How  improper  M-— — r  L — — j  is  to  give  OrderS: 
in  "any  Thing  regularly  :  And,  by  your  Judgement, 
^d  Experiences  you  will  fupply  all  you  find  fur-* 
ther  necelfary  for  his  Majefty's  Service.  For,  C^<r.  j^ 
Given  under  my  Hand,  on  board  his  Majefty's^ 
Ship  the  Boyfje,  in,  Qumbsrland  Harbour,  Cuba^  thi^. 
iith.of  JVow/w^^r,.  174^,,,/,.  ^;  kfj  ,    V 


ifi 


To  Captain  C  h  a  i^  b  e  R  Sj  af  the  Montague.     . 

\X7Hereas  it  appear  d  by  the  V lew  you  took  with 
'•^  me  Yefterday  (m  our  going  up  the  River 
Boyne  as  high  as  the  Stone  Quarries,  and  afterwards' 
taking  the  Tour  by  Land  from  the  Hills  above  the 
Stone  Quarries,  down  into  the  great  Salina^  and 
then  to  the  River,  by  our  Saw-Pit  j)  ' 

That  as  the  Redoubt  we  have  built  for  theipfe-^ 
fence  of  the  Watering,  is  uponan  Ifland,  made  by 
the  River*s  branching  out  into  two  different  Chan- 

Y  -  nels 


t  i66] 

ncls  befides  that  our  Boats  Water  at  (which  makes 
not  only  that  Land  th^  Redoubt  is  built  upon,  an 
Ifland,  but  two  more  Ifknds  are  formed  above  it :) 
And  as  the  Enemy  have  no  Canoes,  or  Craft  of  any 
Hind,  on  that  River,  I  think  there  is  little  Appre- 
henfion  that  they  can  come  to  attack  it  on  the  Ifland 
Side  ;  and  by  what  we  coujd  obferve,  I  do  not  fee 
they  can  have  any  Acqefs  to  it  but  by  the  Way 
cut  by  us  to  the  Salimi.  which  is  none  of  the 
beft  :  I  do  not  fee  but  we  may  continue  waterings 
0\jr  Ships  fafely  there  as  long  as  fliall  be  founds 
cpnvenient,  notwithftanding  the  Army's  having 
judg'd  it  abfolutely  neceflary  for  them  to  reimbark 
from  their  Camp  on  the  River  Augujlay  by  reafon 
of  the  encreafing  Sicknefs  amongft  them. 

you  are,  therefore,  hereby  required  and  direfted,^ 
to  take  upon  you  the  Commijiid  of  all  the  Ships, 
and  Veflels  in  the  upper  Harbour,  for  the  better 
guarding  and  protedting  our  watering  the  Fleet  and 
Tranfports  at  the  fajd  River.  And  you  will  take 
Care  to  enlarge  your  Garrifon  in  the  faid  Redoubt^ 
to  as  many  as  can  be  conveniently  lodged  in  the 
f^d  Redoubt ;  and  if  you  can  have  Provifion  made 
within  it  for  lodging  twenty  Soldiers,  befides  a 
Gunner's  Mate  and  feven  Seamen,  for  the  Manage- 
ment  of  the  Pattereroes  mounted  there,  it  would 
be  well  to  have  a  Lieutenant  of  Soldiers  pofted 
to  command  in  the  Redoubt.  But  if,  by  reafon  oj 
the  Straitnefs  of  it,  there  be  no  proper  AccomtOQr 
(Jation  for  a  Commiffioo  Officer  there,  then  a  Lieu- 
tenant of  Soldiers  and  ten  M.en  may  lye  at  handf 
on  board  the  Sloop  at  the  Mouth  of  the  Rrver^ 
for  his  being  carried  up  by  the  large  Canoe,  to- 
thi;QW  himfelf  into  the  Redoubt,  and  taJjLe  the  Com- 
mand, on  the  firfl  Alarm. 

And  you   will,   with  all  convenient  fpeed,  be 
^tting  a  Way  from  the  Back  of  the  Fort,  to  the 

ncarcft 


[  '6/  i 

peareft  commodious  PJace  for  a  Landing  in  tli* 
Bay  without  the  River's  Mouth,  for  your  fending 
Succours  to  them  that  way  ftom  the  Shipsj  upon 
the  firft  Alarm  being  mide  of  an  Enemy's  Ap- 
pearance. 

You  will  continue  a  Guard-Boat,  with  an  Of- 
Hcer  to  command  and  regulate  every  Thing,  daily 
at  the  Watering  Place  ;   and  order  that  no  Boats 
come  to  water  in  the  River  but  in  the  Day  Time, 
and  none  be  permitted  to  go  above  the  Guard- Boaf, 
but  fuch  little  Dories,  as,  by  your  Allowance,  may 
^o  for  the  hiorc  convenleht  procuring  Cabbage, 
or  Oranges,  for  our  fick  Men  :    And  the  Officer 
commanding  the  Guard-Boat,  is  to  fee  all  Boats^ 
out  of  the  Rivet-  by  Night.         bc\j:  '     -    .^^>^fh 
For  as  no  Encfchy  can  well  crofs  theRivcriri  tfte 
Night  without  Boats,   and  as  they  have  none  tff 
their  own,  you  muft  be  (Careful  we  do  nbt  aflift 
thtirh  with  any  ;   and  mjr  Mafter,  who  comtrtands 
on  board  the  Sloop  at  the  River's  Mouth,  has  my 
Orders  to  be  aflifting  to  you  with  his  Men,  in  cut- 
ting the  Way  to  the  Harboiir  on  the  Back  of  the 
Fort. 

And  all  who  have  occafioil  for  cutting  Wood  for 
their  Firing,  muft  be  appointed  to  cut  it  only  on 
the  Fort  Side  of  the  River.  And  you  will  permit  no 
Perfons  to  go  on  the  other  Side  of  the  River,  that 
they  may  hot  be  in  the  Way  of  being  fut-|)riied. 

And  when  the  Tranfports  Boats  may  coirift  to 
Water  there,  ill  Boats  are  to  be  ordered  to  bring 
fome  Arms  with  them,  for  their  Defence;  and 
no  one  to  be  permitted  to  ramble  from  thehf; 
that  all  poflible  Difpatch  may  bfc  gi^^en  to  what 
they  come  about  (watering  their  Ship.)  And  yob 
will,  frwn  your  own  Experience  and  Obfervation^ 
add  fuch  further  Orders  and  Provifions  as  you  lliall 
judge  ncceflary  for  the  main  End,  of  protedling 

Y  2  and 


^aid  fccuring  our  fafe  watering  our-Ships  from  tho 
Hiver  Boyne.     For,  ^c.  ' 

i^    Given  on  board  the  Boyne ^  in  Cumberland  Har- 
h^viv^  Cuba,  this  13th  of  November,  1741.        -  • 

.^,r- ^: ' .  -  T 

r       To  Captain  RiUT 0^2,  of  iheRippon. 
By,(^c. 

HAving  put  the  Flotilla  under  your  Command, 
I  defire,  when  any  of  the  Tranfports  have 
■taken  on  board  their  Troops,  and  what  elfe  they 
are  to  receive,  and  the  General  has  no  further  Oc- 
cafion  to  detain  them  for  the  Ufe  of  their  Boats  ^ 
that  you  will  fend  the  necefTary  Orders  to  Captain 
Pellat,  to  let  them  pafs  into  the  Bay.  And  I  would 
■have  you  acquaint  the  General  with  thefe  Orders 
:?that  I  have  fent  you.     For,  t^c.  ,  - 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Har* 
hour,  i^c.  this  13th  oi  November,  1741. 

.1  :■.;:■/..,-  E.  V. 

Memorandum;'  :Be  pleafed  to  let  the  General 
know,  that  the  Henrietta  and  St.  Elizabeth  Tranf^ 
ports  are  quite  cleared  ©four  Provifiohs.       •     - 

To.  Mr.  D  E  L  A  M  o  T  T  E,  Majier  of  his  Majefiyh 
4.'.  Ship  the  Boyne,  now  Commanding  Officer  on  board 
the  Sloop  Tender  at  the  IVateriug  P.  lace. 
By,  (^c.  ■  -.-oT  ,.]      :   .  ;  ..    . 

."V7"  O  U  are  hereby  required  and  direfted,  to  obey. 
-•  ■■■    all  fuch  Orders  as  you  fhall  receive  from  Capt. 
.Chambers  of  the  Montague,  to  whofe  Care  I  have 
.committed  the  fecuring  our  fafe  watering  our  Ships 
on  the  RivtrjB(?j»^. 

And 


[■169] 

i.  And  befides  the  Cofiimunication  you  have  cut, 
for  landing  Men  to  fuccour  the  Redoubt  from  the 
Bay,  in  cafe  of  any  Enemies  appearing  to  moleft 
'US  J  you  will  cut  another  Communication  from  the 
Redoubt,  to  fome  convenient  Place  a  little  within 
-the  Entrance  of  the  River,  for  the  fpeedier  fuccour- 
ing  it  from  the  Tender  Sloop  you  are  pofted  in.  *?! 
■ '  And  in  fending  your  Dory  up  the  River,  for  cut- 
ting Cabbage  or  procuring  Oranges  for  our  fick 
Men,  order  them  not  to  frequent  that  Side  of  the 
River  next  the  Salinas  but  to  procure  them  in  the 
Iflands  lying  above  rfie  Ifland  the  Redoubt  is  on, 
if  they  can. 

And  you  will  moor  your  Sloop  as  near  as  you 
,can  to  the  Mouth  of  the  River,  for  the  greater 
Security  of  maintaining  our  Watering.     For,  i^c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne,  in  Cumberland  Harr 
bout,  Cuba^  this  i^th  of  November,  1741.         :•'' 

■•;nr;oi;r  :hvj\f  ';"V  '^r. 

.      ■  .  .      .(  .       Vff     I    ■       . 

To  GefteralW E  KT wo SiTn,:"y^' 

SIR,  ■    .       .■■■  •.;•  ■■■.'     -{> 

I  Have  this  Afternoon  received  your*s  of  this  Day's 
Date,  with  a  hearty  Concern  for  the  encreafing 
:Sicknefs  you  complain  of  amongft  your  Forces. 
.And. for  the  fending  all  fuch  as  you  judge  may 
inquire  being  fent,  to  your  Hofpital  at  Porl  Royal, 
for  their  Recovery,  I  will  take  Care  a  Convoy  fhall 
•be  ready  to  proceed  with  the  Ti:anfports,  with  the 
fick  Men,  on  any  Day  you  fhall  defire ;  and  I  think, 
the  fooner  the  bettcc,  as  they  cannot  want  much 
Water  to  carry  them  to  yfZ7/7tf/V<?.  ;^ 

And  I  prefume  you' will,  at  the  fame  Time,  fend 
the  two  hundred  and  forty-four  Officers  and  Men, 
mentioned  to  be  defign'd  to  be  fent  home  for  the 
Service  of  Recruiting ;  and  I  liavc  prepared  Oruerx 

for 


[  170  ] 
for  Captain  Trevor^  to  diftribute  oil  the  Subalferns 
and  private  Men  of  that  Number  into  the  three 
fixty-gun  Ships  going  home,  for  their  fpecdier 
Arrival  there,  and  enabling  you  to  eafe  the  Crown 
of  the  great  Burthen  of  more  Tranfports  than  are 
neceffary,  and  for  the  better  Defence  of  his  Ma^. 
jefty*s  Ships,  who  go  home  very  weakly-handed. 

I  believe.  Sir,  you  may  remember,  it  was  your 
<)wn  Propofal,  to  have  ftrengthen*d  his  Majefty*s 
Ships  here  with  five  hundred  Men  from  the  Forces 
under  your  Command,  and  to  have  let  all  the 
Tranfports  go  for  Jamaica  ;  but  the  next  Time 
you  mention'd  it,  you  thought  they  would  not 
amount  to  three  hundred  and  fifty.  Whatever 
they  are,  I  cannot  but  freely  give  you  my  Opinion, 
That  would  be  the  beft  Difpofition  of  all  your 
Forces  in  Condition  for  Duty,  for  his  Majefty's 
Service  v  and  to  difpatch  the  Tranfports  away 
with  all  the  reft,  under  fuch  Orders  to  Mr.  Guife 
as  you  think  proper. 

And  my  Reafons  for  it  are,  that  your  well  Men 
would  put  die  Squadron  of  his  Majefl:y*s  Ships  in 
the  beft  Condition  we  could,  for  going  to  meet  the 
Reinforcement  faid  to  be  in  their  Way  hither,  and 
for  being  in  a  Readinefs  to  ad  with  them^  agree- 
able to  fuch  Inftrj6tions  as  his  Majefly  fhall  feild 
out  by  them.  You  have  already  experienc'd, 
that  Delay  is  the  Ruin  of  all  fVeJi-India  Expe- 
ditions :  Whereas,  by  meeting  them  on  the  South 
Side  of  Hifpaniolay  wc  Ihall  be  ready  to  enter  upoii 
immediate  Adion  againil  the  French,  if  a  Wat* 
ihould  break  out  with  them ;  or  mdy  move  off 
direftly  for  Carthagma,  if  his  Majefty's  Orders 
ihoukl  diretft  us  thither,  as  has  been  rum6ur*d; 

And  if  thefe  Troops,  as  is  to  be  prefum'dy  ihould 
be  order*d  under  your  Command,  who  are  a  prinw 
cipal  Perfbn  of.  the  Council  to  direft  their  Pro- 
'-^  ■  ceedmgs  \ 


[  '7«  ] 

cccdings^  how  fatal  would  it  he  ta  his  Majcfily's 
Service,  to  have  y(xi  ahfent !  I  cannot,  therehore^ 
but  abfoluteiy  give  my  Opinion  againft  your  going 
tcyjamaka^  as  of  the  moft  fatal  Conieijuenqj-  &a 
'his  Majefty's  Service.  lOfnif-^j  Mrj<^ 

If  you  defire  a  Council  (^  War  (agreeable  to  \i^ 
Majefty*s  Inftructions)  of  the  four  principal  Offi- 
c^ers,  maturely  to  deliberate  on  this.  Point,  I  will 
call  one  ©»  any  Day  yow  defire  it,    I;  am,        ^  .  -v 

pro  *ij« 

Uoynf,  in  a,«^/W  Harboor         ^-Qur  moft  Obedtenf^M 

on  the  South  Side  of  Cubi  ^^^^  Servant^" 

Nov.  23,  1 74 1.  Er  V,- 

Tff  General  W  en  t  w  o  it  t  »!  .t*?' tofe*'r«i 

I  Have  receiv'd  the  Favour  of  yiotnr  Later  of  thii 
Morning ;  and  cannot  but  exprefs  my  hearty 
Coocern  for  the  melancholy  Account  you  give  of 
the  Sicknefs  amongft  your  Forces.  And  t  cannoc 
but  be  the  more  uneafy,  that  yxm  declare,  you  arc 
quite  difablcd  from  giving  his:  Msgefty's  Ships  any 
manner  of  Afliftance. 

But  I  anv  forry  to  be  oblig'd  to  add,  I  am  very? 
fer  ftom  agreeing  with  you,  in^  the  Necefllty  for 
your  going  to  Jamaica',  for  I  apprehend,  your  Di- 
re^ions  for  the  Care  of  the  Side,  may  very  well 
bp  executed  by  thofe  you  fend  your  Orders  to  for 
it  •,  as  you  have  with  you  now  the  Diredoc  of  youc 
Hofpital,  and  have  Mr.  Guifi  at  Japuika,  to  iec  aU 
your  Orders  put  in  due  Execution. 

And  tho*  no  Part  of  your  prefent  Army  may  be 
dcem'd  by  you  in  Condition  to  (bay,  and  aA  under 
your  Orders ;  yet,  as  there  is  a  frefti  Array  coming 
Out,  which,  it  is  to  be  prefiHnfd,  will  bring  with 
them  all  proper  Officers  to  command  the  Forces 

under 


[  *72  ] 

^nder  you,- and  a  Supply  of  Ordnance  Stores  too  ;. 
^.cartnoc,  from  the' Reafons. mentioned  in  my  Let^. 
ten  to  you  yefterday,  but  continue  to  be  of  Opi-' 
nion^  that  it  is  moft  for  his  Ma)efty*s  Service  you 
fliould  continue  with  the  Fleet,  'till  we  ^eet  either 
the  Forces, .  or  other  Orders  from  his  Majefty. 
For  the  Reafons  therein  mention'd  appeal"  unan- 
fwerable  to  'ftie:, '  that  for  want  of  your  Prefence, 
who  may  be  prefum'd  to  be  a  principal  Director  ia  ' 
their  Operations,  the  Opportunities  of  doing  his 
Majefty  the  tnoft  effcftual  Sei-vices  may  be  entirely 
fruftrated.  And  if  you  think,  it,  therefore,  proper, 
td'take  the  Opinion  of  the  Council  of  War,  whether 
you  ought  to  go  to  Jamaica,  or  continue  with  the 
Fleet,  with  fuc'h  of  your  Forces  as  are  in  Condition 
to  a6t  under  your  Orders ;",  fiich  a  Council  of  the 
four  principal  Officers  (agreeable  to  his  Majefty's 
Inftrudions)  "fhall  be  fummon*d,  whenever  yotf 
defire. 

But  if  you  remain  determin'd  on  going  to  Ja- 
maica,  I  can  only  fay,  I  am  forry  for  it,  and  can- 
not give  any  Countenance  to.it  by  an  Order  under;  ^ 
my  Hand  :    But,  without  that.  Captain  Broderick^    . 
who  will  command  the  Convoy,  I  am  fure,  will 
give  you  the  beft  Accommodation  he  can. 
.J And  as  we  are  fo  reduced  ourfelves,  and  at  no 
Certainty  what  Force  we  may  meet  with,   I  can 
fpare  no  Seamen  to  either  Tranfports  or  Storelhips> 
for  going  to  Jamaica\  who  cannot  want  working 
Hands  for  carrying  them  thither,  from  the  Soldiers  "* 
on  board,  and  the  Blacks  you  have  aflifted  them 
with  ;  befides  near  two  hundred  Spanijh  Prifoners, 
that  I  have  fupplied  them  with,  even  when  their 
Afllftance  was  much  wanted  for  his  Majefty*s  Ships 
gping  home.  ,    , 

ii  But  if  you  don't  think  you  can  fpare  us  any 
Soldiers,  I  hope,  at  leaft,  you  will  affift  us  with 


[  173  ] 

the  three  hundred  Blacks  that  yoii  have  not  wanted 
to  diftribute  to  theTranfports  and  Storefhips,  who 
may  be  materially  neceflary  to  ad:  witJi  the  Army 
expeded  :  •  And  I  arh  the  more  inclin*d  to  defire^ 
it,  as  I  have  received  an  Intimation,  that  it  will 
not  be  eafy  to  procure  the  Return  of  any  Blacks 
to  the  publick  -Service,  after  their  once  getting 
back  to  Jamaka, 

Tho*  his  Grace  the  Dxjk.t  oi Newcajile  fays,  in 
his  Letter^  the  Reinforcement  is  ordered  for  Ja^ 
maica  5  yet  I  am  pcrfwaded  you  will  agree  with 
me,  that  in  cafe  of  a  French  War,  or  even  Orders 
for  the  attacking  Carthagena^  it  would  be  moll  for 
his  Majefty*s  Service  that  we  Ihould  meet  the  faid 
Reinforcement  on  the  South  Side  of  Hifpaniola, 
for  entering  upon  immediate  Adion  with  them. 

I  am  heartily  concern*d  for  our  different  Sen- 
timents :  But  I  fhould  think  myfelf  ill  to  deferve 
that  Confidence  his  Majefly  has  placed  in  me, -if 
I  did  not  give  my  Opinion  clearly,  on  this  Oc- 
cafionj  of  what  I  judge  mbft  for  his  Majefty's 
Service.     lam,,.  .    .  :  ^     . 

Boj>ne,i^c.  Uov.'zJ^,  \j\\.       Tourmoft  Ohedieni^    <,i 

.:  •-ij      .•        .  .  .    Hitmble  Servant^  "* 

.    .;.  •■.V':>.--Ji5  .    :.>  r:/:u.  /  E.  V. 

p.  S.    I  fend  you  inclofed  a  Copy  of  a  Letter 

from  the  Governor  of  St.  Jago^  which  I  received 

this  Morning^  by  Captain  Perez. . '  /  • 

E,  V, 


To  his  Grace  the  Duke  c/  N  *****  *. 
';    My  Lord  Dukey  '  '     .? 

MY  laft  Letter  to  your  Grace  was  of  the  3d  of 
November^  irom  Cumberla»d  Harbour,  by  the 
5«^^r^^,  Captain  Hervey  {d,  Duplicate  of  which  ac- 
Z  companies 


t  m-  ] 

ciompanles^thisj)  which  I  concluded  with  A  Para- 
graph of"  a  Letter  I  that  Day  receivM  from 
General  fVentworth^  which  might  fcrve  as  a  Pre- 
lude to  what  has  fincc  happen'd.  Of  which  being 
fomewhat  apprchenfive,  I  wrote  hipi  the  Letter 
ci  the  4th  (which  yoUr  Grace  has,  inclofcd,  a  Copy 
of;)  and  upon  receiving  from  him  the  Refolutions 
of  his  Council  of  War  of  the  7th,  I  immediately 
took  them  into  rtiature  Confideration,  with  Sir 
Chaloner  Ogle ;  and  we  wrote  him  a  joint  Letter  of 
the  8th  (both  which  your  Grace  has,  inclofed. 
Copies  of)  that  nothing  might  be  wanting  on  our 
Parts,  to  prevent  an  Incident  fo  contrary  to  the 
Rcfolurions  of  our  late  General  Council  of  War. 

On  the  loth  Captain  Perez  (mention'd  in  my 
former  Letters)  arriv'd  here  in  a  Canoe,  with  a 
Flag  of  Truce,  and  with  a  Letter  to  me  from  the 

I  Governor  of  St.  Jago  (which  I  fend  your  Grace  in- 
dofed  a  Copy  of,  as  likewife  of  the  joint  Letter  to 
General  Wentworth^  from  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  and  me^ 
of  the  fame  Day,  indofing  the  faid  Letter  to  him, 

■  and  defiring  his  Opinion  on  it.)  And  oh  the  nth 

r  I  difpatch'd  Captain  Perez  back,  with  my  Anfwer 
to  the  Governor  of  St.  Jago  (that  I  fend  your 
Grace  inclofed   a   Copy  of  j )   chufing  rather  to 

.  make  him  a  Prefent,  than  open  a  Correfpondence 
Jbr  him  with  our  Neighbours,  which,  I  apprehend, 
was  in  gi^at  Part  his  View.  And  I  fend  your  Grace 
likewife,  inclofed,  a  C^y  of  lueh  Intelhgcnce  as 
Mr.  }iogers  procur'd  from  the  Spaniards  that  came 
with  the  Flag  of  Truce,  Mr.  Rogers  (whom  I 
have  made  a  Purfer)  having  formerly  refided  at 
St.  Jago. 

Finding  Mr.  Wentworth  determine  to  rtioVse,  I 
^ent  the  next  Morning  early  as  high  up  the  Rivdr 
Boyne,  as  my  People  as  yet  had  been  able  to  clear  theh- 
Way,  ivhich  R^ht  be  about  three  Leagues ;  and 

then 


r  '75  ] 

then  afcending  the  Hills  by  the  Stone  Quarries,  I 
took  a  Tour  round  by  Land,  for  forming  the  beft 
Difpofition  I  cpuld  for  fecuring  our  watering  our 
Ships  at  theRiverjBijyz^^nQtwithftandingthe  Army'^ 
having  judg'd  it  neceffary  to  abandon  their  Camp 
on  the  River  Augufta  :  And  I  fend  your  Grace  in- 
elofed  a  Plan  of  my  Difpofition,  in  a  Copy  of  the 
Orders  given  to  Captain  CbamberSy  whom  I  took 
to  accompany  me  in  that  View.  I  had  before  fent 
a  Reinforcement  to  ftrengthen  the  Flotilla,  for 
fecuring  their  Retreat ;  and  fent  Captain  Rentonc 
up  to  command  the  Flotilla,  for  their  more  re- 
gular and  orderly  Proceeding. 

All  the  Cannon,  Baggage,  Provifions,  and  fick 
Men,  being  embark'd,  on  Monday  the  i6th  in  the 
Morning  we  difcern'd  the  Hutts  of  the  Camp  to 
be  on  Fire,  Mr.  Wentworth  having  that  Morning 
march'd  down  with  his  remaining  well  Men,  and 
embark'd  himfelf  that  Night  on  board  his  Ma- 
jefty's  Ship  the  Graf  ion ;  Cape.  Renione  remaining 
with  the  Flotilla  under  his  Command,   for  taking 
Care  of  the  orderly  getting  out  of  the  Traniports 
from  the  River  into  the  Harbour;  which,  by  the 
Afliftance  of  the  Captains  of  n^y  Flotilla,   and 
Mr.  Wallace  the  Agent  for  the  Tranfports   (an 
aftive  diligent  Officer)  was  effeded  gradually  by 
Friday  the  20th ;  all  being  then  got  out  but  my 
Flotilla  under  Captain  Rentone^  which  remain'd  to 
clofe  the  Rear,  neither  Army  nor  Tranfports  ha- 
ving had  a  fmgle  Shot  fired  at  them  by  any  on«  : 
And  on  Saturday  the  21ft  the  Flotilla  came  out 
into  the  Harbour  without  any  Interruption. 

I  am  in  daily  Expectation  of  hearing  again  from 
your  Grace.  But  the  governing  Maxims  of  the 
Council  of  General  Officers,  againft  Forces  march- 
ing into  a  woody  Country  ('which  fome  ha-ve  ex- 
tended even  fo  far,  a  J  to  fay,  th^-t  JVoods  Jhotild  he 
Z  2  ckar\i 


[  '76  ] 

"ilear^d  for.  the  March  of  an  Army^ ' even  ley  on^Mufkn 
Shoi  of  them)  cuts  o?i  all  Hopes  of  Hicceeding  in 
.an  Expedition  in  thefe  Counrries  •,  which  cannot 
but  give  me  great  Uneafmefs.  For  unlefs  other 
Maxims  are  ellablifli*d,  there  is  no  Profpe6l  of 
Succefs  in  any  Land  Expeditions  in  the  Spanifh 
Territories,  which,  under  fuch  Maxims,  muft  be 
deemed  only  burthenfome  and  unneceflary. 
I  Had  the  great  7«//«j  C^Ar  ever  harbour*d  fuch 
Maxims  for  his  Government,  I  am  perfwaded  he 
had  never  conquer'd  Britain.  Or  had  the  great 
Duke  of  Marlborcugh,  the  renown'd  General  of 

lour  Age,  entertain*d  any  fuch  Maxims,  he  never 
could  have  march*d  the  Confederate  Army  into 
Germany,  and  preferv*d  the  Empire,  or  have 
fought  the  glorious  Battle  of  Malpiaquet.  Which 
makes  me  hope,  if  thefe  Forces  do  come,  it  will 

JJbe  under  the  Condud  of  Officers  that  will  govern 
themfelves  by  Maxims  fuited  to  a  Country  in  tht 

.State  of  Nature ;  or  that  the  Refolution  for  fend- 

,ing  them  will  have  been  alterM  :  For  under  thefe 
Maxims,   they  are  not  only  unferviceable  them- 

Jklvts,  but  a  Clog  to  the  Proceedings  of  a  Fleet. 

I;,.  The  Tilbury^  in  her  Cruize,  having  taken -a- 
Spanifn  Schooner  that  came  from  the  Havanna 
about  the  12  th  o^OUoher,  the  Mailer  of  her  re- 
ports, that  Don  Rodrigo  de  Torres  was  then  there 

-  with  thirteen  Sail  of  Men  of  War,  eleven  of  them 
of  the  Line  of  Battle  i  and  that  they  had  in  each 
Ship   between   fix  and  feven  hundred  Men,   all 

•  feady  for  the  Sea,  expefting  Orders  every  Day. 

.    The  nextThings  in  Courfe  to  inform  your  Grace 

of,   are  two  Letters  from  General  Wentworth  to 

.mc,  on  the  23d  and  24th  o^  November,  with  my 

Anfwers  to  them  of  the  fam^  Dates ;  which  con- 

•  taining  the  Reafons  of  our  different  Sentiments, 
.,  f^ii^Il  be  humbly  fubmitted  tq  the  Judgement  of 

our 


[  ^77  ] 

our  Royal  Mafter  •,  and  come  here  inclofed  to 
your  Grace,  together  with  a  Copy  of  Mr.  ^f^enj^ 
worth*%  Letter  defiring  a  Council  of  Witf.'  "^^^^ 
;  -On  the  24th  I  receiv*d  by  Capt.  'Perez^  with  aFIk^ 
of  Truce,  a  Letter  of  the  2d  of  December^  N.  S. 
from  the  Governor  of  St.  Jago  (which  comes  like» 
wife  inclofed  j)  and  with  it  he  fent  me  twelve 
horn*d  Cattle  and  fix  Hogs  j  the  former  of  which 
I  have  diftributed  for  the  Relief  of  our  fick  Men. 
-And  I  ihall  return  him  a  Horn-maker,  a  Spanijh 
Friar,  that  the  Tilbury  took  in  a  large  Canoe, 
-coming  from  Leogane  for  Baraccoa,  with  fome 
Trifles  in  her;  and  I  fhall  remind  him  of  his 
Promife,  of  releafing  Captain  JVyllis  as  foon  as  he 
can  be  at  Liberty  to  do  it.  •; 

On  the  25th  in  the  Morning  we  met  at  a  Coiindl 
of  War.  But  as  we  entirely  (as  Sea  and  Land 
Officers)  differed  in  our  Sentiments  of  what  is 
moft  for  his  Majelly*s  Service ;  and  they  would 
not  admit  of  a  cafting  Vote  in  the  Opinion  of  the 
Senior  General  Officer,  no  Refolutions  could  be 
form'd.  So  I  can  only  fend  your  Grace  a  Copy  of 
the  Minutes  of  our  Proceedings,  attefled  by  my 
Secretary ;  and  acquaint  you,  that  they  determin'd 
to  return  to  Jamaica,  and  we  to  proceed  to  meet 
the  Reinforcement,  after  feeing  the  Traniports 
difpatch'd  under  proper  Convoys. 

And  as  both  the  General's  Reafons  and  mine 
are  fumm*d  up  in  our  inclofed  Letters  of  the  23d 
and  24th,  I  can  only  add  my  hearty  Concern  for 
their  being  fo  widely  different.  But  at  parting,  I 
told  him,  if  I  met  the  Succours,  in  cafe  of  a  French 
War,  I  fhould  exhort  the  Commanding  Officer  to 
join  with  us,  in  embracing  the  molt  favourable  Op- 
portunity for  doing  Honour'  to  the  Crown,  and 
Service  to  our  Country  :  And  if  my  Advice  had 
^ny  Weight  with  him,  we  \\ould  not  flip  the  mpfl: 

favourable 


[  '7n 

fat^ourable  Opportunity  that  could  be  hoped  for*, 
as  I  fhould  not  fear  our  Royal  Mailer's  Cenfurci 
for  a  Meafurc  that  appeared  to  me  fo  much  for  his 
Honour  and  Service,  though  not  within  the  Letter 
of  our  Inftruclions.  .1 

^  As  I  am  forced  to  write  in  a  hurry,  for  my 
i^etters  going  by  fome  of  the  unflieath*d  Ships 
from  Port  Royal^  I  have  only  to  add,  that  nine 
of  them  are  under  my  Orders  for  proceeding 
with  all  pofllble  Expedition  to  England  j  and  that 
the  Augufia  and  Brijlol  (the  only  remaining  two, 
that  are  now  out  a  cruizing)  fhall,  at  the  Expira- 
tion of  their  refpedlive  Cruizes,  meet  my  Orders  at 
Jamaica  for  refitting,  to  go  home  with  all  pcflible 
Expedition.  So  that  I  doubt  not  but  the  lateft 
will  get  home  within  the  Time  ordered,  for  being 
ready  to  be  fitted  for  Service  in  the  Spring  of  the 
Year ;  and  I  pray  God  fend  them  aU  .fafc  home, 
»nd  within  the  Time  defired.         '^''  *'' 

With  my  moft  ardent  Wiflies  for  a  fpeedy  hear- 
ing from  your  Grace  at  this  critical  Jundurc,  and 
tin  our  crazy  Condition  (we  having  a  general  Sick- 
>^efs  to  lament,  as  well  as  the  General ;)  I  am, 

-Boy^ne,  in  Cumberland    MyJUrdBuh, 

:..  Harbour  (formerly        ToUT  Gracfs  mojt 

?..  callM  Wahbtnam)  Devoted^  and 

on  the  South  Side  of  Obedient^  Humbk  Servant^ 

To  General  W  e  n  t  w  o  r  Tik,  ^* '-^ .-''  j-^ 
.;     SIR,  "        ' 

I  Send  in  by  Captain  Broderick,  as  you  defire,  an 
Order  to  Captain  Trevor ,  to  fupply  you  with 
the  firft  Ship  or  Veffel  of  his  Majefty's  that  is  in 
readinefs  for  the  Sea,  to  bring  you  up  to  join  us  ; 
Your  Perfon,  as  a  principal  Counfellor  to  dired  the 
.^.r';:  Operations 


[  -^1^  \ 

Operations  of  his  Majefty's  Forc«  when  they  ar-" 
rive,  being  what  I  apprehend  to  be  the  principal 
Point  wanted  :  And  the  recovered  Forces  may  be 
lent  for,  wherever  it  may  be  determin'd  to  go. 

There  being  Blacks  belonging  to  the  Fleet  as 
Seamen,  if  you  would  have  me  enquire  after  the 
fevcn  Blacks  you  mention  as  wanting,  you  will  be 
pleafed  to  fend  me  a  Lift  of  their  Names.     I  am,^ 

Btpri,  h  "Cvt/iberiufid  Har-  T9«r  Pioji  OhBieiti, '   ^^ 

bour,^^.  AW.  27.  i  74. .  Hunii>le  Servant, 

E.y. 

I'd  Captain  "L on c^  of  the  Ch<:X\:er,       '*-) 

WHereas  it  is  of  the  utmoft  Importance  to  his 
Majcfty*s  Service,  to  keep  a  watchful  Eye 
on  all  the  Motions  of  his  Majc%*s  Enemies  at  rhk 
critical  Jundurc.:  ^-'■■-'^  > :  /  •^■'  t'v 

And  whereas  Captain  Allen,  in  the  Seahorfe^  h 
now  under  Orders  of  Cruizing  between  five  and 
eight  Leagues  to  the  S.  E.  ot  JPoint  a  Bacse,  (for 
being  in  the  Way  of  meeting  the  Reinforcements 
ttwt  are  mention'd  to  liave  been  coming  here,  as 
well  as  for  interccpcing  any  of  the  Enemy's  Trade 
coming  that  Way,  or  for  getting  the  earlicft  Ad- 
vices of  the  Motions  of  any  of  their  Squadrons  ; 
and  likewife  with  Letters  from  me,  to  be  delivered 
to  ther  Osmmanding  Officers  both  of  the  Squa- 
dron and  Land  Forces  •,  which  it  is  of  the  utmoft 
Confequence  to  his  Majefty*^  Service  fhould.  not 
pafe  by  «s  :)  Which  Service  he  is  under  Orders  of 
.continuing  upon  till  the  i^th  Day  oi  Dicember 
next:  .      : 

That  you  may  ibc  at  hand  before  that  Tinfty  i» 

^ibcceediiTinin  O^oizing  upon  the ^^rememion*4 

.,^  ..^>.  X  Service, 


t.8o] 

Service,  and  likewile  for  meeting  any  Orders  tlf^ 
itiay  be  coming  by  Exprefs  to  me,  for  their  fpeediefl 
coming  to  my  Hands  :  *^ 

You  are  hereby  required  and  dire<5led,  to  make 
the  bed  of  your  Way  for  Tikroon  Bay,  where  you 
may  compleat  your  Watering  with  grcateft  Expedi- 
tion, to  be  at  hand  for  proceeding  to  cruize  in  thc:- 
aforefaid  Station,  for  the  Service  afore- men tion*dj"* 
before  the  Expiration  of  his  Term.     And  on  your*^ 
meeting  with  the  Seahcrje^  you  will  give  her  Captairi 
Orders  for  proceeding  to  Tiberoon  Bay^  to  recruit 
his  Watering,  and  then  to  Cruize  olf  there,  for 
joining  me  and  giving  me  all  the  Intelligence  he 
may  have  met  with.  J 

And  the  Face  of  Affairs  being  changed  fince  vnf^ 
writing  the  Letters  to  the  Commanding  Officers 
both  of  the  Squadron  and  Land  Forces,  you  will 
now  acquaint  them,  it  is  both  my  Defire  and  Or- 
ders to  them,  that  they  fhould  not  proceed  to  Lee^ii^ 
ward  of  Cape  tiberoon,  but  give  me  Time  to  coma^^ 
and  join  them  there ;  being  fully  perfwaded,  that^ 
our  jundion  there  is  of  the  utmofl  Importance  ta^ 
his  Majefty*s  Service.     And  you  will  give  them  a 
Copy  of  this  Claufe  from  your  Orders,  figned  by 
you,  together  with  the  return*d  Letters,  that  I  hzw* 
wrote  to  meet  them  by  Captain  Lea  ;  and  prefs  thtr 
Commanding  OfHcer  of  the  Land  Forces  by  nOL. 
means  to  proceed  further,  but  to  give  me  the  Opf 
portunity  of  joining  him  there. 

All  Spanijh  Ships  and  Veflels  you  fhallmeet  with^ 
you  are  to  ufe  your  utmolt  Endeavours  to  takefl 
fink,  burn  or  dellroy.  'r 

And  as  to  the  daring  and  unauthoriz'd  Attempts 
of  the  Subjefts  of  any  Nation,  to  cover  and  prote(9:H« 
the  Ships,  Perfons,  or  Efl?eds,  of  his  Majefty's-I 
Enemies  the  Spaniards,  you  are  in  no  Sort  to  per-  ' 
mit  the  fame,  but  to  feize  the  faid  Spaniards  Ships^ J 

Perfons, 


Perfbhs,  or  Effects,  wherever  you  (hail  find  the" 
fame  on  the  Seas  ;  as  you  will  all  Ships  and 
Veffels  you  fhall  meet  with^  going  to  fupply  his 
Majefty's  Enemies  with  contraband  Stores. 

But  on  meeting  with  any  of  the  GuardaCoJias  of* 
his  moft  Ghriftian  Majefty,  you  are  carefully  to, 
prefervewith  them  that  good  Correfpondence  that, 
ought  to  fubfift  between  the  Officers  in  the  Service  ■ 
of  Princes  in  Amity  with  each  other.         vii  jt,.j,:H 

And  as  you  will  be  cruizing  in  the  Way  of  the? 
French  Trade,  you  will  ufe  all  friendly  Offices  to- 
wards them,  and  direft  your  Officers  not  to  harrafs 
or  rummage  any  fuch  French  Ships  or  Veffels,  as 
give  no  juft  Caufe  of  Sufpicion,  of  their  being 
going  with  Contraband  Stores  to  any  of  the  Spanijh 
Ports.  .     . 

And  you  are  to  continue  on  this  Service  'till  the 
31ft  Day  of  December  next,  or  your  fooner  being 
join*d  by  me,  or  receiving  other  Orders  by  fome 
o|  my  Cruizers  :  At  the  Expiration  of  which 
Term,  you  are  to  return  to  Port  Royaly  for  my 
further  Orders,  if  you  fhall  not  receive  them, 
fooner.     For,  6f<r.  /..u-xt'I  sjfi 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne^  in  CumberUni^'yh^J 

hwiXy  Cuba^  t\\\?>  i^x\\  oi November y  1741.     o;  „lo< 

^'  E.  f^u 

itit    iit   ii.'iiSii'ii      -    fii.     lij'    1^'    jy  I    irtii  I'rf'ifilill-*!--''' 

..■  ■  ;     ['r.   {.■-  .    '   .  !  '  f  .;  v.-   :'>ifon| 

To  his  Grace  she  Duke  of  "N  *  *  *  *  •f,;iLno!j[ 
My  Lord  Duke,  /\ 

MY  laft  Letter  to  your  Grace  was  of  the  26tk\ 
of  Novemhery  from  this  Place.  ,  :j  .,4ai\ 

The  next  Day  General  fVentworth  went  away 
himfclf,  with  the  fecond  Detachment  of  Trans- 
ports, leaving  thofe  that  were  moft  helplefs  for 
me  to  detach  after  him  \  and  I  difpatch'd  aw^y  a 
third  Detachjncnt,  under  Convoy  of  the  Bomjb- .. 
A  a  Ketqh 


[    l82    ] 

Ketch  and  one  of- my  Firelhips,   oa  the.  28th  :* 
But  there  were  two,  the  moft  diftrefs'd,  that  were 
oblig'd   to   be   referv'd   to  go  with  the  'Tilbury^ 
which  I  fliall  detach  to  Sea  with  them  to-morrow, 
as  1  could  not  get  her  ready  fooner,.  Hie  returning 
pretty   much   fhatter'd  in  her  Rigging,    from  s>i 
Cruize.     There  go  with  her  two  Firefhips,    toOf 
fidkiy-to  -^keep  the  Sea  with  me,   and  an  emptyt> 
Vidlualler,  loaded  with  all  the  Timber  and  Plank 
that  I  had  cut  here,  to  have  lerv*d  for  the  Plat- 
forms of  the  Battery  I  had  ere(5ted  for  the  Defence 
of  this  Harbour :  And  likewife  the  St.  Jean  Bapiiji^ 
that  has  the  Remainder  of  the  Quickfilver  from 
Iterrol,  fhe  being  fent  in  here  by  one  of  my  Crui- 
Z€rs  on  the  27th,  agreeable  to  what  t  had.  men« 
tion'd  to  your  Grace,  that  I  was  in  Hopes  forae  of 
my  Cruizers  would-  meet  with  her. 
,  f  have  fince  difcover'd  all  her  conccaPd  Spanijh 
Papers,  they  being  let  down,  ia  two  tarr'd  Canvals*' 
Bags,  between  the  Timbers  in  the  Midfhips  of  th« 
Ship.     But  as  I  am  in  a  continual  Hurry  at  prefent, 
and  think  thefe  Papers  will  come  more  authen- 
tically before  the  Court    of   Admiralty  for  not- 
being- open*d  here,  I  fend  them  as  they  are",  di- 
recting the  Commanding  Officer  to.  be  prefcht  at 
the  opening  them,  to  take  Care  of  all  State  Papers 
(if  there  fiiould  be  any  of  them,  befides  thole  rer,. 
lating  to  the  clandeftine  Proceedings,  of  conveying 
the  King  of  ^tf/;2*s  Quickfdver  for  him  under  the 
Cover  of  falfe  Colours  j)  and  if  they  are  material 
f©r  his  Majefty's  Service,  I' have  order'd  them,  toj 
be  immediately  forwarded  to  me.  -  '  ■     /  ^^ 

This  happy  Succefs  will  pi^v^  no  fmalli  Di(^- 
pointment  to  his  Catholick  Majefty.  For  if  (to-»^ 
gather  with  our  having' taken  the  i^r^2«p<5W  and  the' 
St.j€anBaptifi)  La  Reine  de^  Anges  ihould  have- 
bcen  Hiipwreck'd^  a»"4s- probable  fFom-  what  ti 
*  - "t  *  A  —  men  tion'd 


mention'd  in  my  fbf rn^r ;  then  they  have  loft  the 
whole  three  thoufand  nine  hundred  Quintals  of 
Quickfilver  :  Which  is  a  Lofs  to  his  Cathohck 
Majefty  of  the  fame  Weight  of  Virgin  Silver  ; .  as 
they  oblige  their  Subjedts  in  the  Indies  to  take  it 
from  his  Majefty  at  that  Price.  This  makes  it 
one  of  the  bell  Branches  of  the  King  of  Spain's 
Revenue ;  and  it  is  Death  for  any  one  but  himfelf 
to  deal  in  it,  to  lay  them  under  the  Neceflity  of 
paying  him  the  Price  he  fets  upon  it. 

And  I  hear  the  great  Expences  they  have  been 
put  to,  to  fubfift  the  Number  of  People  drawn 
together  at  St.Jago^  has  forced  them  upon  the 
wretched  Expedient  (put  in  Pradice  by  l^mgjames 
in  Ireland)  of  coining  a  Copper  Money,  which  they 
have  ifTued  for  Dollars  and  Ryals,  and  oblig'd  a 
Currency  of  them,  under  Promife  that  the  Vice 
Roy  of  Mexico  is  to  make  them  good  to  thofc 
who  have  taken  them. 

"  I  fhall  dilpatch  in  one  of  my  Hofpitai  Ships 
with  the  worll  of  our  own  fick  Men  and  the  two 
remaining  Victuallers,  on  the  4th ;  and  with  them 
I  fhall  be  oblig'd  to  fend  in  a  clean  twenty-gurt 
Ship  (the  Experiment)  that  is  likewife  too  ficidy 
to  keep  the  Sea  with  me. 

And  then,  after  fetting  Fire  to  my  Fafcine  Bat- 
tery, I  will  endeavour  to  put  to  Sea  on  the  5th, 
with  my  Brother  Admiral's  eight  Ships  of  the 
Line,  one  Firefhip,  and  one  Hoipiral  Ship,  in  the 
beft  Condition  we  can  put  them  into;  and  fhall 
proceed  to  cruize  to  the  Southward  of  Hifpaniola 
(for  meeting  the  Reinforcement,  or  the  next  Or- 
ders from  our  Royal  Mafter,  or  Letters  Iroin  your 
Grace)  with  the  fincercfl  Inclinations  for  doing  all 
in  our  Power,  for  the  Honour  of  the  Crown,  and 
Service  of  our  Country. 

A  a  2  I  hope 


I  "hope  this  witl  arrive  in  Time  to  accompany 
my  Letters  by  Captain  Knowles,  with  the  fixty-gun 
Ships  i  for,  according  to  Capt.  Dav£rs*s  Letters, 
he  fhould  be  now  at  Sea  with  the  three  feventy-gun 
Ships.     I  am, 

Boyne,  in  Cumber/and       My  Lord  Duke, 

Harbour  (formerly  X'our  Grace* s  moft 

^J^he^fufrsfde  J^evoted,  and                     <n 

of  ^clbarDec. '  i!  Obedient^  Humble  Servant, 

1741.  E.  V, 


To  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  N  *  *_  *  ,*  *, 
My  Lord  Duke,  nni   ra^rit  iuq 

MY  laft  to  your  Grace  were,  one  bfthfe  2^ch 
of  November,  by  the  Sboreham,  aod  one  ot  the 
I  ft  o^  December,  from  Cumberland  Harbour,' fent 
to  Jamaica  (to  go  home  by  Captain  Knowles,  with 
three  of  the  fixty-gun  Ships)  by  the  tilbury,  with 
the  laft  of  the  Tranfports,  that  fail'd  the  2d  of 
December.  And  on  the  4th  I  difpatch*d  iox  Jamaica 
one  of  my  Hofpital  Ships  with  the  worft  of  our 
fick  Men,  and  the  remaining  VidluaUers,  with  the 
Experiment,  which  was  too  fickly  to  keep  t^  Sea 
with  us.  ^'fx.']  -"4 

2P   On  the  5th  I  detach*d  the  'Tyger,  Capt.  Herbert, 
yto  (hew  himfelf  firft  off  St.  Jago,  in  order  to  con- 
,,tinue  them  under  the  Apprehenfion  of  having  Ships 
cruizing  off  their  Port ;  and  then,  after  ranging  the 
North  Side  of  Jamaica,  to  fee  that  Coaft  is  not  in- 
fefVed  by  any  of  the  Enemy's  Privateers,  to  go  to 
Blewfields  to  compleat  his  Watering,  and  then  pro- 
ceed to  fupply  the  Defiance's  late  Station,  of  cruizing 
between  the  Grand  Camainos  and  Cape  Corientes. 
i,    And  having  referved  a  French  Gentleman,  taken 
l\Ti  the  Spanijh  Schooner  from  the  Havanna,  for  the 
better  Pretence  of  fending  to  fpy  what  the  Mar- 

quef!^ 


[  i85] 

queft  de  harnage  has  been  doing  at  Leogeme  ^nd 
Petit  Guave  (as  he  has  often  done  by  me  -,)  I  de- 
tach*d  the  Ludlow  Cajile  with  him  for  Leogane  on 
the  5th,  fending^  Letter  by  Captain  Stevens  to  the 
Marquels  de  Larnage,  to  be  delivered  him  at  the 
fame  Time  he  presented  that  Gentleman  to  him  : 
And  your  Grace  has,  inclofed,  a  Copy  of  my  Letter 
to  the  Marquefs  de  Larnage,  and  of  the  Narrative 
from  the  Journal  that  I  fent  him  therewith*:^  tV 

On  the  6th  I  put  to  Sea  mylelf  from  Cumberland, 
with  our  remaining  Squadron  (of  eight  Ships  of 
the  Line,  a  Firefhip,  an  Hofpi'-al  Ship,  and  two 
fmall  Sloop  Tenders)  in  the  beft  Condition  I  could 
put  them  into,  having  an  hundred  Men  upon  ■ 
the  fick  Lift  in  my  own  Ship  ;  but  I  am  in  hopes 
'we  fliall  be  x)n  the  mending  hand  in  that  particUr 
lar,  by  the  Sea  Air. 

Three  Days  before  my  failing  from  Cumberland 
Harbour,  by  a  Sloop  with  Provifions  from  New- 
Tork,  I  had  a  Letter  from  Governor  Clark ;  who 
was  pleafed  to  fend  me  an  old  Spanijh  Pilot,  who 
he  hoped  might  be  of  Service  to  us.  And  find^ 
ing  he  was  one  of  the  King's  Pilots  at  the  Ha- 
varma,  and  a  very  old  Man  (above  Seventy)  I  had 
his  Examination  taken,  in  regard  to  the  Forces 
X\ity  had  at  the  Havanna,  and  their  Preparations 
for  the  Defence  of  it  -,  which,  I  believe,  is  a  pretty 
genuine  one ',  and  I  have  fent  your  Grace  a  Copy 
of  it  inclofed.  "^       '. 

On  the  8th  I  was  joined  at  Sea  by  the  Tork  from 
Jamaica,  near  Cape  Dona  Maria  on  Hifpaniola  : 
But  he  brought  me  no  News  from  thence,  only 
that  he  failed  a  Day  before  Captain  Davcrs  was  to 
lail  with  the  three  unlheath'd  feventy-gun  Ships  1 
which  gives  me  the  Hopes  of  meeting  with  him, 
and  fending  the  Duplicates  of  my  laft  Letters,  and 
my  prefent  Letter,  to  your  Grace  by  him. 

On 


r  i86  ] 

On  the  9th,  by  a  Sloop'  from  Yamjcal  X  re» 
ceiv*d  a  Letter  of  the  2d  Inftant,  from  Captain 
Dennifin  of  the  Augufia  (wrote  off  Port  Morant^  iw 
his  Way  to  Port  Royal  Harbour)  to  acquaint  me, 
Ifhat  very  bad  Weather  and  increafing  Leaks  had 
pbliged  him  to  leave  his  Station  :  And  he  will 
meet  at  Port  Royal,  my  Orders  for  refuting  to  go 
home  with  all  poiBble  Expedition  ;  but  having 
much  Work,  and  few  Hands  to  do  it,  there  cannoit 
be  that  Difpatch  I  could  wifh  for. 

I  was  in  hopes  of  meeting  Qaptain  Davers,  and 
the  three  feventy-gun  Ships,  before  now  •,  or  to 
have  heard  they  were  paffed  by.  And  I  leave  my 
Letters  on  board  the  Hofpital  Ship,  for  her  cruizf 
ing  to  meet  him  off  Cape  Dona  Maria,  and  put* 
ting  them  on  board  of  him  j  as  that  will  prove 
the  fpeedieft  Opportunity  for  their  coming  to  your 
Grace's  Hands« 

I  have  detach'd  Captain  Rentone^  in  the  Rippofty 
to  fupply  the  Station  off  Rio  La  tlizcha  \  and  fhall 
now  ply  up  further  to  windward,  for  lying  in  the 
fair  Way  of  the  Reinforcements  faid  to  be  coming, 
or  meeting  the  frefheft-  Advices  from  your  GracCj- 
for  my  future  Government;  which  I  very  muchr 
long  for  at  this  critical  Conjundure  :  And  as  I 
have  fbme  of  my  Cruizers  up  to  windward  of  me, 
l;hope  they  cannot  pais  by  us.     I  am, 
A^y  Lord  Diike, 
,  Tour  Grace* s  mojt  \ 

Jfnyne,  at  Sea,  ofFCapeTi-         Devoted,  andObedienty 
k^mn,  Dec.  10,  1741.  Humble  Servant, 

E.  V;: 


ro 


YOU  are  hereby  required  afid  direified,  ^Ithf 
his  Majefty*s  Ship  thte  Seahorfe  under  ycMa* 
Command,   to  make  the-beft  of*  your  Wa;^  for 
^ompleating  your  Watering  ih  Tiheroon  Bay. 
!    And  whereas  T  am  expecting  the  Sbeefnefs^  Cj^t/ 
/if^^r^,,  to'colne  to  join  me  there  Verj^  fpeedity,^  afi(f 
am  under  aii^  Uncertainty,    Whetheir   one  of  the^ 
Traniports  with  Stores  for  the  Fleer,  may  not  come 
wi<!h  him  :    In  cafe   the  Trarifport    with  Stores'' 
coihes  up  with  hirrt^  you  Will  put  her  undfer  thfr 
Care  and  Protidftion  ot  Captain  Cotes  in  the  2^ork 
^hom  I  left  riding-  at  anchor  in  Ifi/h  Bay  •,)   ancF 
acquaint  him^  it  is  my  Order,   he  fhould  take  he? 
under  his  Cartr'and  Proreftion  there,  or  in  Tiberooj^ 
Bay,  diliiiy  Return  to  my  appointed  Rendezvous. 
And  you  will  give  Orders  to  Captain  Ward  of  the- 
SBtehiefs,  to  be  plying  up  to  windward,  to  look 
outj:arcfully  for  me,  between  the  faid  Rendezvous, 
and  Cape  Al  a  Vela\    which  he  is  to  do  the  25th 
Inftant  :  Bdt  not  meeting  rt'e^  before' that  Time,  he 
is  to  come  to  look  out  for  me  in  my  faid  general 
R'etidezvOCiSi     A  Copy  of  whith;  ahd  rriy  Cine  of 
Battle,  yob  will-  have  ready  to  deliver  him,  upbA 
y©ar  meeting' With  him.  '    ^ 

A*id  ^  oti  ■  Captain  'Stevens y   ift  tll6  LuMtHii  C-aJtlS}' 
coming  to  the  faid  Rendezvous,  you  will  acquaint* 
him,  It  IS- my  Oi-'der,  he  fhould  piit  into  I'lhe^-oon 
or  Irijh  Bay,,  as  he  can  moft  commodioufly   and' 
fafely  ;•  and^tocbmpleat  hiS'Watey-there,  and  con- 
tinue- under  the  Oftlers  of  Captain  Cotes  till  my 
Retarrt.-    But  if  he  has  procured  any- rriaterial  In* 
teihgcnce,  he  ii  to  fend  we  the  Account  by  you  S' 
Who  are  td  make^tht^  beft  of  your  Way  to  wind* 
Wardi-  for  looking- out  for  ine,  to-  deliver- it,-  as  i^- 
dtr^ed-abo^e  tor- the  .S^r«^/ri--  -  -  i>  -  :    -  . 

And 


t  '88] 

And  Captain  Douglafs  in  the  Princefs  Roydl  Fiof* 
pital  Ship,  on  his  Return  from  the  prefent  Service, 
IS  to  compleat  his  Water,  and  to  put  himfelf  undei* 
the  Orders  of  Captain  Cotes. 

And  you  are  to  give  to  Captain  Cotes  (or  fend,  if 
you  are  not  anchored  in  the  fame  Bay  with  him) 
a  Copy  of  thefe  my  Orders,  figned  by  you  as  a  true 
Copy  ;  which  he  is  hereby  required  to  govern 
himfelf  by,  till  my  Return  to  my  faid  Rendezvous.. 

And  when  you  are  watered,  you  are  to  put  tQ~ 
Sea,  and  cruize  in  the  faid  Rendezvous  for  my  Re-' 
turn,  and  the  Information  of  all  coming  to  it.  Buti 
on  Captain  Cotes's  meeting  any  Intelligence  that  he> 
judges  proper  to  be  immediately  communicated  to- 
me, you  will  follow  his  Orders,  and  make  the  beft' 
of  your  Way  for  finding  me  out.     For,  (^c. 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne^  at  Sea,  off  Poiitt  S 
Bacoe^  the  15  th  of  December^  1741.  ^ 


To  Captain  Long,   of  the  Cheftcr. 
By,  ^c. 

WHereas  it  may  be  of  great  Importance  to  his 
Majefly*s  Service,  that  neither  the  Reinforce-* ' 
ments  faid  to  be  coming  from  England,   nor  any 
Orders  coming  for  me,  fhould  pafs  by  me  unob- 
ferved  j 

You  are  hereby  required  and  direded,  to  make 
the  beft  of  your  Way  as  high  up  as  Cape  Alia  Vela^ 
as  the  Current  feems  favourable   for  it ;    and  to 
cruize  to  the  Southward  of  that,  under  the  former 
Orders  you  have  from  me>   to  the  loth  Day  of 
'January  next.    At  the  Expiration  of  which  Time^^ 
you  will  look  out  for  me,  or  Orders  by  fome  of' 
ray  Cruizers,  at  the  general  Rendezvous  appointed; 
you ;  and  not  meeting  with  any,  make  the  beft 

of 


[  18^,] 

bf  your  Way  for  Port  Royal  Harbour,  Jamaica^  for 
receiving  my  further  Orders.    For,  ^c.  .;,^ 

Given  on  board  the  Boyne^  at  Sea,  off  the  Ifle  oP 
A/by  the  i^th  of  December ^  J  741. 

i      '.  ■;.'     T./ST     •,-»Mv>;.      .^:i-S       «.        >-....,      ,     •-*^       „v^       ,„^..~ 

■  I  •     'I        li     I    111         II  mmmal^mtm^mmaHmamtaifm^m^ 

^0  General  We n t  w o r t h* -».    a' vnn"* 

SIR,  ,«?.:::: 

IHave  receiv'd  yours  of  the  25th  of  December^ 
with  one  inclofed  without  Date,  fign'd  by 
you,  Mr.  Guife,  and  Mr.  Trelawney,  with  your 
Opinions  for  holding  a  General  Council  of  War 
as  loon  as  we  could,  upon  the  Receipt  of  his. 
Grace  the  Duke  of  Newcaftle^s  Letters. 

Capt.  fVard  deliver*d  me  thefe  Letters  on  Sunday 
Morning  the  3d  Inftant,  as  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  and 
I  were  in  our  Way  to  Jamaica  for  holding  the  laid 
General  Council  of  War  -,  after  having  firll  made 
a  flrong  Detachment  for  going  to  cruize  off  Cape 
Aha  f^ela,  for  the  Security  of  the  Tranlports,  that 
I  found  were  coming  out  with  fo  weak  a  Convoy 
as  two  fifty-gun  Ships  and  a  forty-gun  Ship  with 
four  Bomb-Ketches.  I  know  the  French  have  no- 
thing as  yet  in  thefe  Parts  to  annoy  them  i  but 
God  knows  what  may  be  at  Martiniq^ue. 

As  we  are  all  agreed  in  the  Expediency  of  hold- 
ing a  General  Council  of  War  as  foon  as  may  be. 
Sir  Chaloner  Ogle  and  I  will  be  in  Spanifh  Town  on 
the  7th  Inftant  in  the  Evening,  for  meeting  you 
and  JVIr.  Guife  at  Mr.  Trelawney's  on  the  8  th 
Inftant,  by  nine  o*Clock  in  the  Morning.  And 
we  Ihlll  take  up  our  Quarters  at  Friends  Houfes, 
that  Mr,  Trelawney  may  have  Accommodations  fpr 
you  and  Mr.  Guife, 

I  will  take  care  to  have  Captain  L£a  and  Lieut. 

Lowtber  to  attend  the  Council  of  W*r»  (pr.  being 

B  b  examined « 


[  19^  ] 
cxamin'd  j  and  defire  you  will  give  Orders  for 
Mr.  David  Campbell's  Attendance  on  the  Council, 
and  any  one  eWe  you  think  proper,  for  giving  In- 
formation on  the  leverai  Projeds  that  have  been 
tranfmitted  to  you ;  and  I  have  wrote  to  Mr.  Tre- 
lawney^  to  have  Mr.  Hodgfon  to  attend  us. 

And  as  I  conceive  the  drawing  up  our  Realbns, 
for  or  againft  any  Thing  propos*d,  muft  neceflarily 
draw  our  Proceedings  into  a  great  Length,  I  fliall 
decline  any  longer  acting  as  Secretary ;  but  think 
it  abfolutely  neceflary  we  ihould  have  a  Secretary 
to  attend  us,  to  take  Minutes,  and  draw  up  our 
Proceedings  andRefolutions  in  Form  :  And  as  they 
ihould  be  kept  a  Secret,  I  cannot  think  of  any  one 
fo  proper  for  it  as  Mr.  Attorney  General,  who  is 
a  fworn  Officer  to  keep  fecret  the  Councils  of  the 
Crown  •,  and  I  have  defir'd  Mr.  Trelawney  to  re- 
queft  that  Favour  of  him. 

I  was  exceedingly  furpriz*d,  upon  reading  Capt. 
iTrevcr'i  Letter,  that  you  had  prevailed  on  him  to 
give  Orders,  for  the  fick  Soldiers  of  the  American 
Regiment  being  receiv*d  into  the  Hofpital  for  our 
Seamen  at  Pori  Royal :  An  Order,  I  conceive,  that 
neither  he  nor  I  can  juftify,  it  bringing  fuch  a 
Charge  OH  the  Navy,  and  which  he  may  be  liable 
to  have  charg'd  upon  his  Wages. 

Whereas,  Sir,  you  well  know,  you  have  an 
eftablilh'd  Hofpital  for  your  Army,  and  much 
more  numerous  Officers  and  Surgeons  appointed 
for  the  Care  of  it  than  we  have,  tho*  we  have  a 
greater  Number  Of  Men  to  be  taken  Care  of;  and 
you  have  likewife  the  ftrideft  Orders,  for  the 
American  Regiment  to  be  regarded  in  every  Re- 
fpedt  as  the  other  Forces  your  Army  is  compos*d 
of,  and  have  the  large  Town  of  Kingjlon  to  pro- 
vide Quarters  for  them  all  in  :  Whereas  we  are  fo 
ftraiten'd  in  Port  Royal,  as  not  to  be  able  to  pro- 
cure 


cure  fufficient  Lodgment  for  our  fick  Seamen. 
And  as  this  is  fo  inconfiftent  with  what  his  Grace 
has  recommended  to  us  (an  amicable  Union  in  all 
Things)  I  muft  beg  the  Favour,  Sir,  you  will 
give  immediate  Orders  for  the  fick  American  Sol- 
diers, lent  us  to  man  our  Ships,  being  receiv'd 
into  the  Army  Hoipital  (agreeable  to  his  Majefty's 
Orders)  whenever  they  have  Occafion  for  it ;  and 
that  you  will,  by  Captain  Trevor,  let  me  know 
where  fuch  as  have  immediate  Occafion  for  it, 
may  be  now  fent  accordingly,  from. Q^r  Ships 
come  in  with  us,  and  coming  in.  or1ih^<^-   '^^ 

I  will  do  all  in  my  Power,  punfhially  to  comply 
with  his  Majefty's  Inftruftions ;  and  hope  you  will 
give  immediate  Orders  for  removing  this  Stum- 
bling Block,  that  I  may  leave  the  neceflary  Orders 
behind  me  in  that  Particular,  before  my  going  for 
Spani/h  Town. 

I  congratulate  you  on  your  late  Recovery  from 
your  Fever ;  and,  with  my  beft  Wilhes  for  your 
Health,  I  am, 

SIR,  ,^ 

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APPENDIX, 

An  Account  of  our  March  from  the  Camp  at  the 
Upper  Barkadier  on  Augufta  River^  to  the  Village 
pf  Etteguava,  and  hack  to  the  Camp. 

Saturday,  July  25,  1741. 

THIS   Morning  about  half  an  Hour  pall 
Nine,  we  fet  out  from  the  Camp,   on 
the  Right  Hand  Side  of  the  ^wtr  Augufta^ 
in  Cumberland  Harbour  ( formerly  call'd  Walthenam  \) 
and  about  four  Miles  up,  we  crofs'd  over  to  thie 
Left  Hand  of  the  River  (it  being  then  near  Noon) 
and  march'd  about  two  Miles  farther,   and  came 
to  a  Hutt,  where  we  ftopp'd  to  refreJh  the  Men, 
and  look  about  us.     "We  found  the  Spaniards  had 
not  been  long  gone,   for  in  the  Fire  we  found 
Plantains  not  half  rpaftedj    we  likewife  catch'd 
eleven  Horfes,  one  live  Hog,  and  fopie  jerk*d  Pork ; 
and  found  in  the  Wood  near  the  Hutt  about  two 
hundred  ftnall  Shot   for  Fuzees,   and  about  ten 
Pound  of  Gunpowder,   and  the  Sails  of  one  of 
our  Longboats  that  the  Spaniards  had  deftroy'd. 
About  Four  in  the  Afternoon  we  fet  out  again, 
and  foon  crofs'd  the  River  again  to  the  Right 
Hand,  at  a  Place  they  call  Hog  Hole.     In  crofling 
the  River,  there  was  a  high  Bank  over-againft  us. 
On  the  Top  of  the  Bank  we  faw  a  Hutt,    and 
march'd  direftly  up  to  it  ;   but  before  we  could 
get  up,  a  Spaniard  fired  a  Mufket  and  ran  away. 
Here  there  were  feveral  Paths,  and  we  had  the  ill 
Luck  to  take  the  wrong,  which  carried  us,  too  far 
to  the  Northward.    Night  coming  on,  we  got  up- 
on 


on  a  Tniali  Hill,    and  (laid  there,  'till  the  next 
Morning. 

S  u  N  D  A  Y,  7a/y  26,  1 741. 
This  Morning  at  Day  Light  wc  fet  out  again  in 
order  to  find  the  River  and  right  Path,  and  about 
Nine  o'Clock  we  came  to  the  Riyer,  and.crols'd 
over  to  the  Left  Hand  Side  of  it,  and  came  to  ano- 
ther Hutt,  where  we  found  the  other  Longboat's 
Sails,  and  the  right  Road.  We  ftaid  here  about  an 
Hour,  and  then  fet  out  again  j  the  Pilot  was  afk*d 
if  he  knew  where  he  was  ;  he  anfwer'd,  he  did,  and 
told  them,  before  we  reach*d  the  Savanna  we  fliould 
come  to  a  Ruinat,  (which  we  did.)  The  Path  here 
is  very  good,  leading  by  the  River  Side  till  you 
come  to  a  Rivulet  about  two  Steps  over,  and  then 
you  go  into  the  Woods  again,  and  then  you  have 
a  plain  fmooth  Road  'till  you  come  to  the  Savanna. 
The  Pilot  told  us,  that  juft  entering  into  the  Savanna^ 
was  a  likely  Place  for  an  Ambufli  (which  we  found 
coming  back.)  We  march*d  about  four  Miles  over 
the  Savanna,,  and  came  to  the  Houfe,  and  took  Pof-* 
feflion  of  it  about  Half  an  Hour  paft  Three  in  the 
Afternoon;  this  Houfe  and  Savanna  belong  to 
Don  Pedro  Guarro,  and  are  called  Guantanamo.  The 
Pilot  fhew*d  another  Houfe  about  two  Miles  and  a 
half  from  Guanianamo,  over  a  fine  Savanna,  which 
is  call'd  Cano  Faco,  belonging  to  Marcos  Paries,  the 
River  running  between  the  Houfes;  here  Major 
jyunjlon  ordered  fifty  Soldiers,  we  with  the  reft  of 
the  Forces  ftaying  at  the  firft  Houfe.  Here  is 
plenty  of  Cattle,  Horfes,  fome  Shi^ep^aifdFjDwiv 
and  Water  very  near  the  Houfe,  .  .Lu^H  l^^iS  3iid 

Monday,  July  27,  .ly^t.'.!! 
This  Morning  about  Eleven  o*Clock,  an  Officer 
with  a  Guard  of  eight  Men  was  fent  with  Letters  to 
the  General  \  by  the  fame  OfHcer  I  wrote  to  the  Ad- 
miral. 


['95] 
miral.  The  Guard  had  not  been  long  gone  before 
News  was  brought  from  Cam  Vaco^  that  they  had 
taken  two  Spaniards^  one  very  Old,  the  other  a 
young  Man,  who  was  going  to  his  Captain  Don 
Pedro  Guarro,  who  had  a  Company  of  fifty  Men. 
He  hkewife  told  us, '  that  Captain  Marcos  Parks 
had  another  Company  of  twenty-five  Men,  guard- 
ing this  Part  of  the  Country.  We  continued  at 
the  firft  Houfe. 

Tuesday,  JulyiZ^  1741. 
This  Morning  we  fet  out  for  the  Village  ofEftg' 
guava^  leaving  fifty  Soldiers  to  take  Care  of  the 
Houfe,  and  called  at  the  other  Houfe  called  Cam 
Vaco,  and  took  fifty  Men  that  were  there  with  us, 
which  made  us  about  a  hundred  and  fifty  Shot. 
We  march'd  over  a  pretty  fteep  Hill  and  an  ugly 
ftony  Road,  and  about  Four  o*Clock  in  the  Afrer- 
noon  we  enter'd  the  Village  without  any  Refinance. 
About  two  Miles  before  we  came  to  the  Village, 
we  met  with  a  Lime-Kiln,  and,  a  little  Way  from 
that,  with  two  Hog  Crawls,  with  fome  Hogs  in 
them.  The  Village  Hands  on  a  high  Bank,  the 
River  running  half  Way  round  it ;  it  confifts  of  a 
few  Hutts,  and  a  Church  about  forty- five  Poot 
long  and  eighteen  broad.  Here  we  faw  a  Spaniard m 
a  Corn  Piece  ;  he  was  purfued,  dropp*d  his  Mufker, 
and  got  away  ;  the  Mufket  was  one'of  our  Ship*s 
Arms.  This  Place  is  about  N.W.  from  the  Mouth 
of  U\t  Harbour,  diftant  ten  Leagues.  In  the  Even- 
ings and  Mornings  it  is  friirWeather,  in  the  Middle 
of  the  Day  wc  never  miffed  of  Rain  with  l^hunder 
and  Lightning.  Here  is  plenty  of  every  Thing-, 
but  Bread  Kind,  the  Plantains  not  being  ripe. 

Wednesday,  July  2<)^  1741. 
This  Afternoon  we   took    a  Negro  Man  with 
three  Lances  and  a  Mufker,  who  had  run  away 

from 


[  i96  ] 

f^om  his  Mafter*s  Hutt  with  four  more  Negroes^ 
they  knowing  our  People  were  about.  He  is  aL 
poor  filly  Fellow^  like  a  ftew  Negro.  We  con^ 
tinued  in  this  Village.  *i 

r 

Thursday.  July  %o^  ^74^- 
This  Morning  about  Ten  o*Clock  an  Officer  was 
fent  to  Guantanamo  with  a  Guard  of  four  Men, 
with  Letters  to  be  forwarded  to  the  General,  and 
one  of  mine  to  the  Admiral.  About  Six  o'Clock 
in  the  Afternoon,  we  took  another  Negro  Man, 
who  lives  at  St.  Jago,  a  free  Man.  He  had  two 
Hog-Spears  and  a  Mafcheet,  juft  come  from  Hunt- 
ing. He  came  through  the  Savanna  called  Sia.  Ca- 
tatina^  and  finding  no  Body  there,  was  going  di- 
redly  to  St.  Jago.  He  feems  to  be  a  fenfible  Fel- 
low, but  pretends  not  to  know  of  any  Parties  of, 
Spaniards  being  about.  We  fent  a  Party  out  this 
Morning  to  look  about  them  ;  they  found,  about 
one  Mile  and  a  half,  fome  moreHutts,  Hogs,  and 
Fowls.     There  are  feveral  Hutts  about  this  Place. 

Friday,  July  ^i,  1741. 
Weather  as  before  ;  we  fent  our  Men  out  to  get 
Bread  Kind  ;  very  little  to  be  found. 

Saturday,  Auguft  i,  1741. 
5  This  Morning  about  Eleven  o'Clock  Lieutenant 
Freeman  arrived  here  from  Cam  Vaco^  with  ten  Sol- 
diers, a  Serjeant  and  Corporal,  and  twenty-four 
5'^ggiige  and  Shot  Negroes ;  and  gives  an  Account 
of  Lieutenant  Withers  and  one  Negro  Man  being 
fhot,  and  fix  Negroes  more  miffing,  they  meeting 
voth  an  Ambufh  at  the  Corner  of  a  Wood  between 
the  two  Houfes  called  Cam  Vaco  and  Guantanamo, 
He  likewife  brought  a  Letter  from  Colonel  Cockrany 
(then  at  Guantanamo)' to  Major  Bunjiony  to  return 

to 


r  ^97] 

to  him  with  all  Expedition.  About  half  an  Hour 
pad  Two  o'clock  in  the  Afternoon  we  ftt  out 
from  the  Village  [EWeguava)  and  about  Ten  at 
Night  we  got  into  Cam  Vaco ;  (it  was  fo  dark  in  the 
Wood  that  two  Negroes  were  forced  to  go  on 
their  Hands  and  Knees  to  find  the  Road  -,)  here  we 
laid  all  Night. 

• ' ^- '"  ' ••*  Sunday,  Auguft  2,  1 74T. 
'  This  Morning  about  Eight  o*Clock  we  fet  out 
from  Cam  Vaco^  and  got  to  Guantanamo  about  half 
an  Hour  pad:  Nine,  where  we  found  Colond  Cochran 
with  two  hundred  Soldiers  (as  I  was  informed. )  I 
applied  myfelf  to  him,  as  being  the  Commanding 
Officer  ;  he  told  me  he  expefted  to  hear  from  the 
General  this  Evening  or  the  next  Morning,  and 
then  he  believed  he  fhould  go  down,  and  that  I 
might  go  with  him ;  and  that  he  had  forwarded  a 
Letter!  wrote  to  the  Admiral  from  the  Village. 
About  half  an  Hour  pafl  Six  in  the  Afternoon, 
Lieutenant  -  Colonel  Whitford  arrived  from  the 
Camp  with  fifty  Soldiers,  thirty-two  Shot  Negroes, 
and  feventy-fix  Baggage  Negroes,  with  Provifions 
(Bread  and  Brandy)  for  four  hundred  Men ;  our 
Men  were  ordered  a  Quarter  of  a  Pint  of  Brandy, 
and  one  Pound  of  Brem  each.  Here  we  (hid  all 
Night. 

Monday,  Auguji  ^^  1741. 
This  Day  nothing  remarkable,  but  tried  to  pen 
Cattle  and  Horfes.  Continued  at  this  Place  aft 
Night.  Our  Men  had  fhort  Allowance  of  Bread, 
and  a  Quarter  of  a  Pint  of  Brandy.  The  Colonel 
afked  me  if  our  Men  had  got  their  Provifions  for 
to-morrow,  for  he  fhould  go  by  Day-break  ;  I 
told  him,  I  was  afraid,  if  they  had  their  Brandy 
they  would  drink  it  to-night  -,  he  then  faid  they 
fhould  have  it  in  the  Morning. 

Cc  Tuesday 


[  198  ] 

Tuesday,  Juguji  4,  1 741. 
This  Morning  about  Six  o'CIock,  we  fet  out 
from  Guantanamo,  in  order  to  march  to  the  Camp ; 
and  about  nine  o*Clock,  juft  as  we  were  enter*d 
the  Wood  froin  the  Savanna,  we  were  ambufh'd 
by  the  Spaniards.  They  let  the  Soldiers  pafs,  and 
moft  of  our  Men.  There  was  a  Soldier  eafing 
himfelf  behind  us  j  the  Spaniards  fired  firft  at  him, 
and  fhot  him  in  the  Breaft,  and  ran  to  him  and 
cut  him  thro*  the  Jaw-Bone,  and  one  Side  of  his 
Neck ;  another  cut  thro*  the  Flefh  of  his  Thigh 
into  the  Bone;  and  another  on  his  Side.  Our 
Men  diredtly  turn*d  to  the  Spaniards,  and  kill'd 
that  Man  and  two  more.  As  foon  as  they  found 
that,  they  ran  away  through  the  Woods.  They 
wounded  one  of  our  Men  in  both  his  Arms  ;  one, 
after  he  was  brought  on  board,  was  cut  off  clofe 
;o  his  Shoulder ;  the  Soldier  lived  about  half  an 
Hour.  We  brought  him  on  a  Horfe  about  three 
Miles,  and  buried  him  at  a  Hutt  where  we  flaid 
and  dined.  After  Dinner  we  fet  out  again,  and 
about  four  o'CIock  we  arriv'd  in  the  Camp.  We 
met  the  General  a  little  Way  out  of  the  Camp, 
who  defir'd  me  to  go  to  his  Tent,  and  faid  that 
he  fhould  return  foon,  and  that  he  had  two  Letters 
from  the  Admiral  to  me  ;  I  went  to  his  Tent  and 
flaid  'till  the  General  return'd,  and  receiv'd  the 
two  Letters,  and  then  took  Boat  and  waited  on  the 
Admiral. 

T.  Sturton. 


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[  199  ] 

'The  following  are  Tranjlations  of  three  Letters  from 
the  Governor  of  St.  Jago  de  Cuba,  to  Capt.  Peter 

?  'Guerra,  dated  the  ^oth  and  ^iji  of  July,  and  the 
2^©/Auguft,  1741,  N.  S.  ' 

To  Captain  Peter  Guerra. 

TH  E  Bearer  Balthazar  arriv'd  here  at  Eleven, 
with  an  Account  of  feventeen  Ships  having 
anchored  in  the  Bay,  and  of  eight  being  off  the 
Mouth  of  the  Bay,  and  of  two  Sloops  being  got 
into  the  River.  And  as  it  is  natural  to  think  they 
are  come  to  take  Pofleflion  thereof,  it  is  abfolutely 
neceffary  you  interrupt  them,  as  much  as  is  in  your 
Power,  from  proceeding  higher  up  j  and  if  they 
fhould  offer  to  land,  you  muft  difpute  their  ad- 
vancing at  every  Pafs,  taking  care  to  have  proper 
Men  to  obferve  their  Motions ;  of  which  you  are^ 
to  fend  me  immediate  Notice,  that  I  may  fend 
you  fuflicient  Succours.  You  are  to  take  Poffeflion 
of  all  the  Paffes  with  fmall  Numbers  of  Men,  and 
lie  in  Ambulh,  that  in  cafe  they  fliould  come  up 
the  River,  they  may  return  hke  Mad  Men,  and 
not  dare  to  land. 

I  have  order'd  all  the  Men  to  be  affembled  to- 
gether, excepting  thofe  that  are  neceffary  foj* 
making  Caffave  and  Curing  Beef  for  them  that 
are  in  Junicon.  \ 

To  attack  this  Place,  they  have  no  other  Parj;, 
but  that  Bay  to  come  to  an  Anchor  at.  Therefore 
it*s  neceffary  that  you  and  your  People  ihould 
maintain  yourfelves  in  Sight  of  the  B.iy,  that  it" 
they  ffiould  offer  to  land  you  may  afford  them 
good  Diverlion ;  which  is  what  I  exped  from  your 
good  Condudl  and  Knowledge  of  the  Place.  If 
you  want  any  Powder,  fend  a  Party  of  Horfc^ 
and  a  Perfon  you  can  confide  in,  that  they  may 
carry  it,  and  Firelocks,  if  you  fl\ould  want  any. 

Cuba,.  July  30,  1741.  N.  ^.  C A X I G  A  L , 

Cc  2.  'i;q 


[    200    ] 

^o' Captain  Peter  Gxterra. 

I  Have  receiv*d  your  two  Letters,  by  which  I  find 
there  are  in  that  Bay  and  the  Entrance  thereot 
fixty  Sail,  and  obferve  by  them  what  ydu  have 
done,  and  of  their  having  chafed  your  Boats  twice 
in  the  River ;  and  expedl  from  your  Zeal  and 
Love  to  the  Royal  Service,  that  you  will  not  only 
impede  whatever  they  may  defign,  but  that  by 
your  Cafe,  with  that  of  your  People,  Jrou  will 
obferve  their  Operations  by  Day  and  by  Night, 
and  endeavour  to  learn  if  they  have  raifed  any 
Fortifications,  giving  me  Notice  of  every  Thing  j 
and  don't  lofe  an  Inftant  of  Time. 

We  have  eight  Sail  in  Sight  off  this  Harbour. 
By  Amhrozio  Lopex  I  have  fent  you  twenty  good 
Mufkets,  two  Arroves  [fifty  Pound]  of  Powder, 
three  hundred  Balls,  and  thirty  Flints. 
^  I  expc6l  that  yoii  will  not  only  hinder  them 
from  burning  your  Hato  [a  Pen  of  Cattle,]  but 
even  from  putting  a  Foot  on  Shore  i  and  take 
care  to  obferve  if  they  fortify  themfelves  or  not. 

^^j  Cuba,  July  jx,  1741,  N.  S.  CAXiOAt. 

i^U-jirQ  - '  T<?  Captain  PetirGuerra. 

.jJlt7ITH  a  great  deal  of  Pleal'ure  I  receiv*d 

^^^^    yo"f  two  Letters  of  yefterday,  in  which  you 

!  fell,  me  you  have  beat  away  the  Enemy,  burnt  two 

iof  their  Boats,  taken  an  Enfign,  with  fome  Arms 

and  Baggage,    and   kill'd  and  wounded  a  great 

many  of  them  ;  For  which  I  give  you  and  your 

People  a  thoufand  Thanks,  expeding  from  your 

Valour,  Zeal,  and  Love  to  the  King,   that  you 

will  hinder  them  from  watering,  and  deftroy  every 

one  that  offers  to  put  his  Foot  on  Shore  j^  or.  to 

fee  them  obliged  to  leave  the  Glory  to  you  alone, 

of  having  drove  them  inglorioufly  away  from  this 

Btty.  And  if,  for  your  enjoying  this  Pleafure,  you 

Ihould 


[    20I    ] 

fliould  have  Occafion  for  more  Arms,  Men,  and 
Ammunition,  advife  me  of  it,  that,  altho*  I  go 
myfelf  in  Perfon,  you  may  be  aflifted. 

You  have  already  received  by  Amhrozio  Lopez  two 
%Arroves  [fifty  Pound]  of  Powder,  three  hundred 
Balls,  and  thirty  Flints  ;  and  if  they  are  not  fuffi- 
,cient,  I  will  fend  you  what  Quantity  you  pleafe. 
.<;  I  have  wrote  to  Father  iV^/^/w  to  provide  you 
with  Rum  and  Provifions,  that  you  may  have 
fufficient  of  every  Thing  ;  and  take  Car^  for  I 
confide  entirely  in  you  and  your  People.      ' '-,;  ^* 

If  any  jEw^/^w^w  Ihould  happen  to  come  Over 
to  you,  give  him  good  Quarters,  and  fend  him 
to  me,  that  I  may  get  fome  Intelligence  from  him. 
For  I  am  perfwaded  that  they  intend  to  fortify 
themfelves  at  that  Port ;  of  which  you  are  to  en- 
deavour to  get  fome  Account  by  all  manner  of 
Means,  fending  Perfons  that  know  the  Place  to 
the  very  Bay,  that  they  may  fee  and  obferve  whe- 
ther they  land  on  the  little  Ifland,  or  elfewhere ; 
if  they  raife  any  Earth,  and  of  every  Thing  they 
do,  give  me  Advice.  And  to  the  Perfon  by  whom 
you  fend  fuch  Advice,  give  your  PalTport,  that  he 
may  get  Horfes  all  the  Way,  for  the  greater 
Difpatch. 

Let  all  your  People  know,  that  if  any  of  them 
ihall  plunder,  or  take  any  Thing  from  the  Engli/h^ 
all  that  he  ihall  fo  pillage  fhall  belong  to  him,  let 
it  be  what  Quantity  it  will.  ^  ';    ^ 

I  live  fo  fatisfied  of  Your*s  and  ybi^  'Pet^p%*^ 
Zeal,  that  they  will  be  a  Terror  to  the  Enemy  ; 
and  with  fuch  favourable  Beginnings,  I  hope  they 
will  leave  Cuia  with  more  broken  Heads  than  they 
did  Cartaxcna, 


[    202    ] 

To  Admiral  V  z  r  n  o  n. 

,  Honoured  SIR, 
'  I  ''H  E  Bearer  of  this  is  Don  Miguel  Perez,  an 

-■'  Inhabitant  of  St.  J  ago  de  Cuba,  whom  I  beg 
Leave  to  recommend  to  your  Protedion.  As  he 
is  a  Perfon  praflifed  in  the  Sea,  he  is  able  to  give 
a  particular  Account  of  the  Place  of  his  Nativity  •, 
and  I  believe  what  he  fays  may  be  depended  upon. 
I  am. 

Honoured  S  I  R, 
Kingjion  in  Jamaica^  Tour  moji  Obedient, 

7«/yi8,  1741.  Humble  Servant, 

Ja.  Ord. 

DECLARATION  of  Bon  Miguel  Perez. 

HE  is  aCreol  o^  St. J  ago,  has  been  many  Years 
Mailer  of  a  Veflel  out  there,  trading  to  dif- 
ferent Parts  of  the  Spanijh  Main  -,  has  a  Wife  and 
Children  in  the  faid  City ;  and  was  taken  Prifoner 
by  an  Englifh  Privateer,  off  Zamba  on  the  Coaft  of 
Cartaxena,  about  the  12th  of  September  lad,  and 
carried  into  Jamaica,  where  he  remained  about  ten ' 
Months: 

About  eleven  Years  ago  he  had  occafion  to  go 
to  Barracoa,  in  order  to  recover  fome  Debts ;  and 
fet  out  from  St.  Jago  about  Five  in  the  Morning, 
and  got  to  Guaninicu  (a  Sugar  Plantation  belonging 
to  Padre  Jofepb  Mufiilier)  before  Noon,  travelling 
quite  at  his  Eafe  and  Leifwre  -,  and  believes  it  to  be 
about  four  Leagues  dillance.  From  thence,  next 
Morning  he  fet  forward,  and  got  to  Xagua  (ano- 
ther Sugar  Work,  belonging  to  Don  Diego  Mujlilier) 
before  Noon ;  where  he  refted  that  Night.  From 
thence,  next  Morning  he  went  for  Savanilla,  where 
is. a  large  Pen  of  Hogs  belonging  to  Don  Jofeph 
Jj)fada,  and  arrived,  there  the  fame  Night.     From 

thence^ 


[  203  ] 
thence,  next  Morning  (being  the  fourth  Day)  he 
fet  out  for  Sta.  Catalitia  (a  large  Cattle- Pen  belong- 
ing to  the  Family  of  the  Cavalleros)  and  arrived 
there  in  the  Evening  :  Thefe  two  laft  Stages  he  lay 
by  from  Nine  in  the  Morning  till  about  Three  in 
the  Afternoon,  hanging  up  his  Hammock  under  the 
Shade  of  the  Trees,  to  avoid  the  Heat  of  the  Sun. 
From  Sta.  Catalina  towards  Barracoa,  is  a  Place 
called  Tiguabos  (difbnt  about  fix  Leagues,  to  the 
beft  of  his  Judgment)  where  there  is  a  Church, 
and  many  Houles  fcattered  to  and  fro,  inhabited 
by  Mulattoes  and  ordinary  People  *,  and  he  knows 
of  no  other  Place  in.  the  whole  Road  which  can  be 
called  a  Village.  He  has  always  heard  that  the 
faid  'Tiguahos  is  reckon*d  twenty-five  Leagues  from 
the  City  of  St.  J  ago.,  and  a  tolerable  good  Road 
the  whole  Way  ;  in  fome  Places  broader  and  more 
open  than  in  others,  but  in  all  fo  broad  that  Horfes 
and  Mules  loaded  can  very  well  pafs ;  which  is  the 
only  Carriage  in  the  Country,  except  within  about 
two  Leagues  of  the  City,  where  they  drive  with 
Wains  and  Oxen.  There  are  wild  Horfes,  Cattle, 
and  Hogs,  in  plenty,  the  major  Part  of  the  Way, 
and  Rivers  and  Rivulets  in  abundance,  with  many 
other  Pens,  Csfr.  fcattered  here  and  there  near  the 
Highway. 

He  knows  nothing  of  the  Road  from  hence  to 
St.  Jagq  by  Experience,  but  believes  it  mull  be 
much  nearer  to  go  by  the  Way  of  Guantanatno  \ 
which  is  a  Cattle-Pen,  belonging  to  Don  Pedro 
Guerm,  from  which  Cattle-Pen  this  Bay,  or  Har- 
bour, takes  its  Name ;  and,  he  believes,  may  be 
diftant  from  it  about  feven  Leagues. 

As  to  the  Declaration  of  General  Wentwortb,  he 
has  read  it,  and  allows  it  to  be  open  and  generous  j 
but  before  the  Inhabitants  can  be  fuppofed  to  give 
into  it,    they  will  neccflarily  expe<5l  to  perufe  the 

Terms » 


[    204    ] 

Terms ;  but  the  Confequence  of  that  he  cannot 
anfwer  for,  and  defires  to  be  excufed  giving  his 
Opinion  :  But,  at  the  fame  Time,  fays,  that  he  has 
a  Wife  and  Children,  Father,  Brother,  and  Sifters, 
in  the  faid  City  •,  Ihould  they  accept  of  the  Terms, 
how  is  it  poflible  for  him  to  part  from  them  ? 

And  I  Don  Miguel  Perez^  being  entirely  fatif- 
fied  as  to  the  Interpretation  of  the  faid  Declaration, 
twice  read  to  me  by  Mr.  Wiltiam  Rogers,  do  affirm 
the  fame  to  be  juft  and  true,  according  to  the  beft 
of  my  Judgment. 

Dated  on  board  his  Majefty's  Ship  the  Boyne,  in 
Guantanamo  Harbour,  this  nth  Day  of  Auguji, 
1741. 

^'iinefsy  Miguel  Perez. 

Polycarpu'5  Taylor, 
W.  Rogen- 

N.  B.  That  Lieutenant  Lowther  (who  refided 
long  with  the  Spaniards,  has  travelled  much  in  their 
Country,  and  been  employed  in  cutting  Roads  for 
them)  fays,  their  computed  Leagues  are  not  two 
Englifh  meafured  Miles. 


Declaration  of  Manuel  Jofeph  de  la  Cruz, 
a  Free-horn  Negro  of  St.  Jago  de  la  Cuba. 

THAT  he  is  perfectly  well  acquainted   with 
the  Road  from  St.  Jago  to  Tigmbos,  which. 
leads  in  the  following  Manner,  viz. 

From  St.  Jago  to  the  Cuava,  a  Sugar  Work 
belonging  to  Don  Francifco  Rubukava  j  from  thence 
to  Guaninicu,  a  Sugar  Work  belonging  to  Padre 
Jofeph  Mufiilier  ;  from  thence  to  Xagua,  a  Sugar 
Work  belonging  to  Don  Diego  Muftilier ;  from 
thence  to  Agucate,  a  Cattle  and  Hog  Pen,  belong- 
ing to  Don  Jofeph  Palacios ;  from  thence  to  Sava^ 
nilla^^  Cattle  and  Hog  Pen,  belonging  to  Don 

•■-  :    '-  "  -  Jofeph 


[  205  ] 
Jofeph  Lofada  j  from  thence  to  MarcarejaSy  a  Cattle 
and  Hog  Pen  belonging  to  Don  Diego  Mujlilier ; 
from  thence  to  Tiguabosy  where  is  a  little  Church 
covered  with  Tiles,  and  about  forty  or  fifty  ftrag- 
gling  thatch'd  Houfes,  not  in  any  regular  order, 
but  all  in  fight  of  each  othfer ;  the  Inhabitants 
thereof  being  free  Indians  and  Mulattoes. 

He  cannot  venture  to  fay,  how  far  diflant  any 
of  the  abovefaid  Places  are  from  each  other ;  but 
is  pofitive  that  it  is  accounted  fifteen  Leagues  in 
the  whole,  and  that  he  has  travelled  the  fame  on 
Horfeback  in  one  Day  and  a  Night. 

He  has  often  heard  that  there  is  a  Cattle  Pen, 
called  Sta.  Catalina^  belonging  to  fome  Brothers, 
named  Cavalier os  \  and  another  belonging  to  Pedra 
Guerra,  called  Gtiantanamo  -,  but  does  not  knovr 
exadtly  where  they  lye.  He  never  heard  of  any 
Houfe  called  Cano  Vaco,  belonging  to  Marcos  Paries^ 
or  any  thing  like  the  Name  -,  nor  does  he  know, 
or  ever  heard  of,  any  Place  or  Pen  whatever  called 
Etteguava. 

So  far  as  Tiguahos  he  knows  very  well,  and  no 
farther  i  and  will  undertake  to  lead  the  Way  from 
thence  to  the  faid  City  of  St.  J  ago.  He  farther 
faith,  that  there  are  wild  Horfes,  Cattle  and  Hogs, 
great  part  of  the  Way,  and  fevcral  Rivers  and  Ri- 
vulets ;  the  Road  in  fome  Places  not  fo  good  as 
in  others,  but  at  all  times,  and  every  where,  paf- 
fable  for  loaded  Mules  and  Horfes  i  which  is  the 
only  Carriage  made  ufe  of  above  two  Leagues  dif- 
tance  from  the  City ;  within  which  Compafs  they 
frequently  ufe  Wheel  Carriages  with  Oxen. 

Dated  on  board  his  Majcfty's  Ship  the  Boyne^  ia 
Cumberland ll3iiho\jii,  this  i2ih  o{  Auguji,  1741. 

^ '>«'>.  The  Mark  ""  of 

W.R^^S:  Man.  JofephdTla  Cruz. 

P  d  Die  LA"] 


[    206    ] 

Declaration  of  Sebaftian  de  Hkierdo,  tahn 
about  five  Months  ago  on  the  Coaji  of  Cartaxcna, 
in  a  fmall  Ship  from  St.  Jago  loaded  with  Sugar 
and  'Tobacco. 

HE  is  a  Creol  of  the  faid  St.  Jago^  and  fays  he 
knows  the  Country  and  Roads  perfedily  well 
from  hence  thither  •,  that  he  went  out  with  a  Party 
of  Men  commanded  by  Colonel  Cockran,  to  Guan- 
ianamo^  a  Cattle  Pen  belonging  to  Pedro  Guerra^ 
which  is  four  Leagues  (or  four  Hours)  diftance 
from  the  Camp  :  That  when  there,  Colonel  Cockran 
afked  him  many  Queftions  ;  as,  how  far  from 
thence  to  St.  Jago  ?  what  fort  of  a  Road  ^  whether 
there  were  Plantations  or  Houfes  in  the  Way,  and 
Plenty  of  Water  and  Cattle  }  to  which  he  an- 
fwer*d,  from  Guantanamo  to  St.  Jago  was  reckon'd 
fifteen  Leagues,  the  five  firft  of  which  were  but 
indifferent  in  the  rainy  Seafon,  being  wet  and  floppy 
under  Foot  and  not  fo  open  as  the  other  Ten ; 
which  is  a  good  broad  Road  the  whole  Way,  and 
wide  enough  for  fix  Men  to  walk  a-breaft  :  That 
m  the  Way  there  were  many  Sugar  Works,  Cattle 
Pens,  and  Vegas  of  Tobacco,  with  plenty  of  Water, 
and  wild  as  well  as  tame  Cattle  :  That  from  Guan-  ■ 
tanamo  they  went  about  a  League  farther  in  order 
to  view  the  Road,  and  upon  their  Return  the  Co- 
lonel told  him,  that  he  was  very  well  fatisfied  with 
his  Intelligence,  and  believed  he  had  told  hini  ilie 
Truth.  not)  ^miX 

,  He  has  travelled  from  Guanlanamo  to  St.  Jago 
-it- foot  in  a  Couple  of  Days,  walking  leifurely  along, 
and  lying  by  the  Afternoon  and  Night  on  the 
Road  :  But  fays,  upon  Occafion,  he  could  reach 
St.' Tnes  (a  Sugar  Work  belonging  to  Don  Miguel 
de  las  Cuevas,  which  is  within  a  League  of  the 
Town)  in  one  Day,  and  that  he  has  rode  it,  i^ii 
one  Horfe,  in  ten  Hours^  ^ 

■  i-a  The 


[    207    ] 

The  foregoing  Declaration  being  interpreted,  and 
.diftindly  read  to  me  by  Mr.  William  Rogers^  I  do 
affirm  the  fame  to  be  juft  and  true.      ^'*^^^\  ^  ^^ 

Dated  on  board  his  Majefty's  Ship  "^cr^m^  in 
Cumberland  Harbour f  this  ift  ot  Sept  ember y  1741. 

Witntfs, 

R.  Swanton,  Sebaflian  de  Hiciefdo. 

W.Rogers.  , V  '' 

DscLARATioN^/  Mr.  Tolcr. 
May  it  pleafe  your  Honour^ 

HAving  but  fhort  Warning  allowed  me,  when 
I  reprefented  to  you  the  Situation  of  St.  Jago^ 
Byam,  &c.  with  the  Inclinations  of  the  People,  as 
they  ftand  affedlcd  at  this  prefent  Jundure  1  give 
me  Leave  to  offer  you  this  as  a  farther  Account  of 
both.     The  Towns  in  general  are  made  up  of  a 
few  rich  Dons,  who  exercife  their  arbitrary  Power 
over  a  Multitude  of  poor  People,  who  having  no 
Recourfe  to  any  open  Laws  to  relieve  them  out  of 
their  unnatural  and  inhuman   Behaviour  towards 
them,  has  brought  them  to  an  idle  and  effeminate 
Courfe  of  Life,  without  any  Hopes  of  Relief,  ex- 
cept what  may  be  now  expefted  from  the  EnTliJb^ 
whom  they  have  long  hoped  for,  and  now  daily 
cxpeft,  not  only  the  poorer  Sort,  but  Numbers  of 
higher  Degrees  of  Life,  which  I  have  for  a  long 
Time  converfed  with  on  that  Head.     Your  Ho- 
nour,   I  believe,  will  not  fuppofe  that  their  not 
coming  in  to  us  before  we  fhew  ourfelves  refolved 
to   protect   them,    is  any  Reafon  why   they  arc 
not  well  inclined  towards  a  Change  ;    their  Lives 
and  Fortunes  depending  upon  the  bad  or  good 
Succefs  of  the  Enterprize.     That  there  is  a  great 
Number  of  People  fcattered  throughout  this  large 
Ifland,  is  moft  certain,    the  major  Part  of  which 
D  d  3  is 


[    208    ] 

is  now  at  the  Havamia  -,  and  I  really  believe  that 
that  Town  contains  about  half  the  Inhabitants  of 
the  whole  ;  but  let  any  Man  live  among  thefe 
People  as  long  as  I  have,  and  he  will  readily  fee 
and  know,  how  incapable  they  are  of  defending 
themfelves  againft  a  well-trained  and  contagious 
People,  as  we  for  many  Centuries  paft  have  proved 
ourlblves  to  be  :  I  fay,  for  Men  who  are  Strangers 
to  Arms,  and  bred  up  as  wild  as  the  Hogs  they 
devour  (without  any  kind  of  Exercifes  to  create 
man-like  Difpofitions)  can  never  be  fuppofed  to 
Hand  the  leaft  Attack  of  an  Enemy.  I  fhall  offer 
fome  fmall  Account  of  the  great  Excellencies  of 
this  Ifland  (as  flir  as  I  know  and  have  fecn)  which 
I  believe  will  be  enough  to  invite  any  Man  to  at^- 
tempt  the  Conqueft. 

I  was  fent  from  St.  Jago  to  Byam  with  fixty-thr^e 
Prifoners,  to  be  kept  there  at  the  cheapeft  rate  if/ 
we  lived  upon  half  a  Bitt  a  Day,   and  haid  Beef, 
Pork,  and  Bread  to  fpare. 

Thro'  all  the  Country  that  I  pad,  the  Savannas 
were  fwarming  with  Cattle,  and  the  Woods  with 
Hogs,  both  tame  and  wild  j  the  Land  is  good  for  Su- 
gar Canes,  which  it  produces,  andTobacco  of  the  bell 
Kind  in  great  plenty  j  Wheat  and  Rice  grow  well, 
and  all  kind  of  Salleting  and  Pulfe  in  the  greateft 
Plenty  that  ever  I  faw,  with  Fruit  of  all  Kinds  that 
thofe  Indies  afford.  The  Woods  are  full -of  Ma-  ■ 
hogony,  Fuftick,  SpaniJh'Elm,  and  Cedar,  and  fe-"  ■ 
veral  other  Kinds  that  I  am  not  acquainted  with ; 
Cotton  grows  wild,  befidcs  what  is  planted.  The 
Town  of  Covery  has  in  it  the  richeft  Copper-Mine 
that  is  known,  and  they  are  daily  at  work  upon 
it ;  it  lies  within  three  Leagues  of  St.  J  ago.  The 
whole  Ifland  is  full  of  fine  Rivers,  and  Harbours  fit 
for  Tranfportation.  This  being  all  that  came  in 
my  View,  can  fay  nothing  of  the  great  Tradt  of 
'      ■'  Land 


[    209    ] 

Land  that  leads  to  the  Havama^  which  I  am  told 
tv  exceeds  what  I  have  mentioned., 

;  I  return  your  Honour  Thanks  for  the  great  Care 
you  have  taken  in  procuring  me  and  my  Fellow 
Prifoners  our  Deliverance  out  of  the  Hands  of 
thofe  brutifh  People,  who  by  their  ^Ithy  Beha- 
viour to  each  other,  as  well  as  their  barbarous. 
Ulage  to  Strangers,  Ihew  themfelves  ripe  for  De- 
ftrudlion.  And  1  make  no  doubt  of  Succefs,  if  all 
concerned  ufe  the  fame  willing  Means  that  you  do; 
and  what  great  or  good  Thing  can  be  had  without 
fome  Hazard  or  Pains  ?  Had  not  your  Honour 
fent  for  me,  I  Ihould  have  ofFer'd  myfelf  to  you 
upon  this  Occafion,  with  a  hearty  Will  to  ferve 
either  by  Land  or  Water,  as  you  /hall  think  fit. 
I  am 

Witnefi*  Tour  ifioft  humhk  Servanty 

X;Y''^°°V-,^,     .  .,    .        .\    W.TOLER. 

W.Rogers.     '''■^";     ii  -i   -rrt:    v 

Oh  board  the  Boyne,  Auguft  1 7,  1 74 1 , 


Captain  Allen,  of  the  Seahorfe,  his  Account  of  what 
j>afs*d  at  M.  Larnage'j  Table  at  Hifpaniola. 

SAturday  the  25th  of  July ^  1741,  .being  then  in 
Company  with  Monfieur  Marquis  ^^Z<<2r»<a^^,  the 
French  General  of  Hifpaniola^  he  alked  me  where 
I  left  Admiral  Vernon  and  Sir  Chaloner  Ogle-,  I  told 
him  off  the  Navaffa,  with  about  fifty  or  fixty  Sail 
of  Tranfports.  He  afk'd  if  I  knew  where  they 
were  defign'd  •,  I  anfwer'd  no,  that  it  was  kept  a 
Secret.  I  believe,  faith  the  Marquis  de  Lama^e, 
the  Admiral  will  go  for  St.  Jago  de  Cuba,  it  being 
a  Place  that  will  always  ^ive  you  Gentlemen  Englip 
Trouble,  on  Account  of  their  Privateers  :  But  for 
the  Admiral*s  attacking  it  by  Sea,  faith  the  Mar- 
quis,   I  think  it  not  pofiible,  by  Reafon  of  the 

Narrownefs 


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Narrownefs  at  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour,  and 
the  Winds  that  take  your  Ships  aback  in  going 
in  :  But,  laid  he,  it'  it  is  to  be  taken,  it  muft  be  by 
Land. 

Seahorfe,  \n  CumherUndihshow,  E^   ALLEIf 

Ca^^^,  ^^,  12,   !7fl. 


Mr*  Mac  NeillV  Remarks  on  the  Road  betwixt  the 
General's  Camp  and  Guantanamo. 

SOME  Remarks  of  the  Road  betwixt  the  Ge- 
neraPs  Camp  and  the  other. 

The  Diflance  between  botli  being,  to  the  beft 
of  my  Knowledge,  about  fixteen  Miles ;  of  which 
there  is  five  Miles  of  a  Savanna^  which  wants  little 
or  no  Clearance.  The  reft  of  the  Road  in  general 
is  but  narrow,  but  very  level,  and  can  be  eafily 
clear'd  twenty  Foot  each  Side  of  the  faid  Road, 
with  a  little  Trouble, 

uiKguji  13,  1741.  A.  Mac  Neill. 


Lieutenant  George  Lowthcr*^  Declaration  of  the 
iv  i^tb  <j^  Auguft,  1741. 

fT*^'is  fixtcen  Miles  from  the  Camp  to  Peter 
Guerra's  Houfe,  call*d  Guantanamo. 

I  jud^e  a  Road  might  be  cut  to  Guantanamo 
twenty  Foot  wide  in  five  Days  by  three  hundred 
Negroes,  I  having  had  Slaves,  and  they  always  cut 
twelve  Yards  Square  each  Day,  and  had  due  Time 
to  reft. 

I  believe  if  the  Road  were  cut  ftrelght,  it  would 
(liorten  the  Diftance  two  Miles. 

I  never  heard  or  knew  that  Colonel  Cockran  ad- 
vanced in  the  Road  from  Guantanamo  towards  the 
Village  with  the  Httle  Church,  where  Lieutenant 
^T'-"*-^.  Sturton 


[2n] 

Siurton  Went  v/Ith  the  firft  advanced  Guvird,  above 
one  Mile,  and  that  was  in  an  open  Savanna^  I 
then  being  with  liim. 

Juguji  14,    1 741,  G.  LOWTHER, 


Report  of  Lieutenant  George  Lowther,    and  John 
Gibbins,  Pilot, 
SIR, 

PUrfuant  to  your  Order,  thr  22d  of  Ju^ujt  we 
weigh*d  and  fail'd  from  Cumberland  Harbour 
in  the  Sloop  Triton,  and  proceeded  on  our  Voyage 
to  the  Wcftward,  coafting  along  Shore,  to  fee  if 
there  was  any  Place  for  a  Ship  to  anchor  in  be- 
tween this  and  the  Jquadores  ;  but  could  not  find 
any  Place  fit  to  anchor  our  Sloop  in.  ■''- 

About  three  Leagues  to  the  Eaftward  of  th<* 
yiquadores,  there  are  three  fmall  Hills,  callM  by 
tlie  Spaniards  the  Attaos.  Here  Alexander  de  Vilnairfy 
a  Frenchman  we  had  on  board  by  Order,  faid  there 
was  a  good  Bay  with  anchoring  Ground  -,  we  flood 
clofe  into  the  faid  Place,  and  founded  with  our 
deep  Sea  Line,  but  could  get  no  Ground  with 
eighty  Fathom ;  nor  was  there  any  Bay,  but  the 
whole  Coaft  is  an  Iron-bound  Shore,  and  fteep  too 
in  all  Parts. 

From  this  Place  we  could  fee  the  Fortifications 
at  the  Aquadores,  which  we  did  intend  to  view  in 
the  Morning;  but  Night  coming  on  with  bad 
Weather  and  a  great  Sea  from  the  South  F^ft, 
we  made  the  befl  of  our  Way  to  Cumberland  Har- 
bour, according  to  our  Orders.  "'^ 

Sign*d  on  board  his  Majcfl)'*s  Ship  the  Boytti^ 
this  30th  of  Augujf,  1 74 1 . 

ff'itnefs,  G.  LOWTHIR, 

T.Watfoii,  T.  GiBBINS.    ' 

R.  bwantou. 

Bearings 


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Bearings  and  Diftances,  as  they  were  found  to  be  ly 
John  Frafer,  Majier  of  his  Majejifs  Skip  Orford, 
Capt.  Perry  Mayne  Commander^  Sept.  i8,  1741. 

FROM  Cape  Mayze  to  Cumberland  Harbour  the 
CourfeisW.S.W.  '  W.  diftant  29  Leagues. 
From  Cumberland  Harbour  to  St.  J  ago  the  Courfe 
isW.  S.W.  diftant  11  Leagues. 

pr  J.  Fraser. 


Mr.  William  Scott'^  Account  of  the  Roady  that  he  was 
brought  by  from  Barracoa  to  St.  Jago  de  Cuba. 

ON  Monday  the  24th  of  May^  1742,  I  fet  out 
from  Barracoa^  guarded  by  two  Soldiers,  who 
were  to  condudt  me  to  St.  Jago.  The  Soldiers 
both  march*d  on  Foot  with  their  Mufkets,  but  I 
had  a  Horfe  allowed  rne,  being  very  weak  from  a 
late  Sicknefs.  Our  Road  lay  chiefly  over  the 
Mountains  *till  Thurfday  Evening,  when  we  came 
to  the  Sea  Shore  on  the  South  Side  of  the  IHand. 
We  travell*d  on  by  the  Sea  Side  *till  Friday 
Afternoon,  and  then  turn*d  off  to  the  Hills,  over 
which  we  continued  our  Journey  untill  eight 
o'Ck)ck  on.  Sunday  MoTnm^',  (by  their  bringing 
me  by  the  Sea  on  the  South  Side  of  the  Ifland, 
I  conceive  they  did  not  bring  me  the  direct  Road 
to  St.  Jago.)  In  defcending  this  lafl  Hill,  I  faw 
the  Opening  of  a  very  large  Harbour,  which  the 
Soldiers  faid  was  Guantanam  (and  which  we  call*d 
Cumberland  Harbour.)  We  travelled  the  remaining 
Part  oi  Sunday  thro*  large  Savannas,  well  flock*d 
with  Cattle  and  Sheep,  and  lodg'd  that  Night  at 
a  ruin'd  Church  that  flood  on  a  high  Bank,  near  a 
River  that  furrounded  about  two  thirds  of  the  Vil- 
lage, which  the  Soldiers  told  me  was  the  Village 
that  the  Englijh  had  been  at  and  defboy'd  it. 

On 


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On  Monday  Morning  (being  the  next  DayJ  we 
crofs'd  tiie  River,  which  River  the  Soldiers  told  me 
emptied  itfelf  into  Guantanant  (or  Cumberla>id  Har- 
bour.) After  crofling  the  River,  we  travelled  thro* 
Groves  of  Trees,  where  no  Path  appear*d ;  the 
Soldiers  frequently  notching  the  Trees  with  theirf 
Mafcheets,  which,  they  told  me,  was  to  know  the 
Way  by  another  Time ;  for,  if  I  had  not  been 
with  them,  they  faid  they  could  have  gone  a  much- 
nearer  and  better  Road-  Having  traveled  about 
two  Hours  in  this  manner,  we  came  to  a  Path 
between  two  Hills,  where  two  Men  could  walk 
abreaft  of  each  other  •,  which  Road,  I  think,  might 
very  eafily  be  opcn'd,  the  Trees  near  the  Road  be- 
ing but  fmalJ.  About  eleven  of  the  Clock  we  came 
to  the  Bottom  of  a  Hill,  where  the  Path  was" 
narrower,  and  only  fit  for  one  to  pafs  at  a  Time  : 
But  I  think  the  Path  might  he  made  broader 
without  any  great  Difficulty.  About  Noon  we  got 
to  the  Top  of  that  Hill,  where  was  a  Fafcine  Bat- 
tery of  eight  Guns  (of  fix  and  four  Pounders)- 
which  Battery  they  told  me  was  ereded  while  our 
Army  lay  encamped ;  which  was  hkewife  confirm'd" 
to  me,  when  I  came  to  St.  J  ago,  by  Mr.  John 
Cray,  who  faid  thofe  Guns  were  brought  in  Cvts 
from  St.  J  ago.  -'"  '^^ 

We  traveli'd  from  the  Fafcine  Battery  tKro*  a 
Cart  Ro^  to  St.  Jago,  each  Side  of  the  Way  being* 
full  of  Plantations.  About  four  o' Clock  we  came 
to  a  fmall  Town  with  a  large  Church  in  it  j  from 
whence  we  traveli'd  thro*  a  fine  Champian  Country 
to  St.Jago,  where  we  arriv*d  on  Monday  E^/tmng,  at 
the  Governor's  Houfe.  And  I  judge  our  Diftanc* 
from  the  Fafcine  Battery  to  the  Town  of  St.  Jag/p 
might  be  about  eighteen  EngUJh  Miles,  and  believe 
the  Diftance  from  the  Village  to  the  Fafeine  Bat- 
E  e  tcry 


[  214  T 
tcry  might  be  about  the  fame  ;  and  think  k  cduld 
not  be  more,  the  Soldiers  that  accompanied  me  in 
that  Day's  March  having  march'd  it  all  on  Foot, 
as  they  had  the  whole  Journey  from  Barracoa. 

On  my  being  brought  to  the  Governor's  Houfey 
he  fent  me  Prifoner  to-  what  they  call  the  Caftle  ;. 
which  is  a  Square  Stone  Building,  the  lower  Part 
divided  into  Apartments  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Officers 
and  Soldiers,  which  have  arch'd  Roofs,  and  s 
Platform  over  the  Top  of  them,  where  there  arc 
eight  Guns  mounted,  two  on  each  Side  of  the 
Square ;  the  chief  Ufe  of  which,  I  was  inforra'd, 
was  to  Alarm  the  Country  oa  the  Approach  of  an 
Enemy.  -''' 

After  being  fixtecn  Days  in  the  Caftle,  I  had 
the  Liberty  ot  walking  ,about  the  Town  *,  when  I 
was  informed  that  the  Soldiers,  who  condjLK3:ed  me 
to  St.  Jago^  were  imprifon'd  for  bringing  me  to 
the  Fafcine  Battery.  The  Town  of  St.  Jago^  is 
entirely  open  to  the  Country,  without  any  manner 
.-of  Fortification. 

■ '  Having  the  liberty  of  walking  about  the  Town 
-%here  I  pleas*d,  I  met  with  one  Moniieur  jlfhei^ 
Captain  of  a  French  Sloop,  whom  I  formerly  was 
acquainted  with  at  Jamaica.  Happenir^  to  talk 
of  the  Fortifications  of  the  Harbour,  he  told  mfi 
that  Nature  had  fortified  it  as  nfiuch  as  Art }  for 
that  whenever  a  Ship  was  coming,  they  had  ^ 
Launch  with  a  Cable  in  her,  ready  to  carry  on 
board  of  them  as  foon  as  they  got  to  the  Msor 
Caftle  ;  for  then  the  Eddy  wind,  that  comes  down 
the  Gully  between  the  Movr  Caftle  and  the  Eftrdla^ 
takes  them  aback,  and  would  infallibly  put  them 
on  the  Wcftern  Shore,  if  they  were  not  brought  ♦ 
up  by  that  Cable,  which  is  fiift  to  an  Anchor  on 
-6to9  i»  4hfi  fii^  }^gXNH^  ifae  two  Cafiles« 
.^fnaib  >(D£ij..  :,at^  biif;J  ly/o-iT.tijfii  bu         Which 


[2-5] 

Which  Account  I  found  to  be  true,  for  Captain 
AJheu  carried  me  cwi  board  of  his  Sloop  when  the 
Carracca  Ships  came  in  there,  and  I  then  obferv'd 
chat  the  fecond  Ship  did  not  offer  to  come  in,  'till 
the  firft  Ship  had  dipt  the  Cable,  and  lail*d  up 
ihe  Haiix)ur. 

'. '  The  above-mention'd  Remarks,  made  by  me  on 
the  Road,  and  at  St.  Jago^  are  true  to  the  beft  of 
my  Knowledge. 

Sworn  at  Mincing-Lane,  in  ton-  W.  ScOTT. 

^  dotty    the  7th  Day  of  March ^ 
•'1742,  before  me  » 

Robert  Willimott,  Mayor. 


Paragraph  of  a  Letter  from  Br.  Hume,   of  Port 
Royal,  Jamaica,  dated  Jm.  16,  1742. 

J  Will  pray  your  Permiflion  to  relate  an  Affair 
that  has  happen*d  here  lince  you  left  us  ♦,  and 
tho'  Negroes  are  the  Parties  concern'd,  yet  as  it 
makes  fo  great  an  Impreffion  on  moft  People's 
Minds,  and  as  the  Story  is  told  fo  naturally,  with- 
out Art,  and  fo  like  naked  Truth,  I  hope  you  will 
excufe  me  for  troubling  you  with  it. 
- .,  About  three  Weeks  ago,  fix  Negroes  made  their 
fefcape  from  St.  J  ago  de  Cuba  in  a  Canoe.     They 
belong*d  all  to  Jamaica^   and  had  been  taken  in 
Turtlers  before  you  went  to  Cumberland  Harbour. 
They  were  employ*d  on  the  Works  at  St.  Jago  all 
the  while  our  Army  lay  on  the  Ifland  of  Cuba. 
Two  of  them,  who  are  free  Negroes,   and  very 
fenfible  rational  Men,  are  very  particular  in  de- 
fcribing   the  Place   and  Fortifications.     They  af- 
firm, that  the  Governor  and  principal  Inhabitants 
were  conflantly   in  th&  utmoft  Dread,    left  our 
Army  Ihould  march  over  Land  and  attack  them ; 
£  e  2  and 


[    2l6    ] 

and  (O  much  were  they  perfwaded  of  this,  that  the 
Governor  and  Grandees  would  not  truft  themfelves 
to  fleep  in  the  Town  or  Forts,  but  went  every 
Night  into  the  Woods.  When  Dunjion^  who,  you 
know,  was  Major  of  the  Black  Regiment,  had 
march'd  into  the  Woods  with  a  hundred  Negroes, 
the  Governor  and  Town  were  in  the  utmoft  Con- 
ilernation,  bi^lieving  he  was  fo  far  in  his  Way  to 
attack  them ;  as  he  was  then  but  fix  Hours 
March,  and  that  no  very  bad  Road,  from  the 
Town.  The  Fellows  affirm,  and  moft  People 
here  are  now  of  Opinion,  that  if  Dunfion  had 
had  one  hundred  Soldiers  to  his  Blacks,  and  had 
marched  on,  the  Town  as  well  as  Forts  would 
have  fallen  into  his  Hands.  There  are  many 
other  Particulars,  which  I  forbear  troubling  you 
with,  as  Dodor  Fuller  told  me  he  would  fend  you 
the  full  Examination  of  the  whole  Affair.  For  my 
own  Part,  I  give  a  moft  implicit  Faith  to  the 
whole  Relation,  as  the  poor  Negroes  can  have  no 
Party  Principles,  nor  any  other  Inducement  to 
make  them  go  from  the  Truth. 

J.  Hume. 


ExtraEi  of  a  Letter  from  Port  Royal  in  Jamaica, 
dated  July  29,  1743 

A  Bout  two  Months  ago  Ten  wounded  Spaniards 
fell  under  my  Care.  As  they  were  all  Inha- 
bitants of  St.  J  ago  de  Cuba^  I  had  the  Curiofity  to 
afk  them  many  Q^eftions  relating  to  that  Place.  I 
had  heard  many  of  the  Land  Officers  infill  much 
on  the  Badnefsand  great  Length  of  the  Road,  be- 
tween the  EnzUJJo  Camp  and  Town  of  St.  J  ago ;  for 
that  Reafon  I  was  very  particular  on  that  head; 

but 


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but  could  hear  nothing  of  the  terrible  Mountains 
and  Bogs  our  Army  ufed  to  talk  of.  I  drew  toge- 
ther, in  the  Form  of  the  inclofed  Affidavit,  what 
my  Patients  had  told  me  in  many  Converfations ; 
and  after  they  had  perufed  it,  afked  them  if  they 
were  willing  to  fwear  to  it ;  to  which  they  very 
readily  confented.  They  are  very  fedate,  fenfible 
Men,  and  are  particularly  acquainted  with  the  Road, 
having  often  traveled  it.  They  tell  me  their 
Countrymen  are  ftill  at  a  Lofs  to  guefs,  what  it 
was  that  kept  the  Englijh  from  marching  on  after 
they  landed.  They  ufed  to  fay  merrily  to  one  ano- 
ther, they  believed  the  Englijh  were  come  to  a 
Hunting  Match  in  their  Woods,  and  not  with  any 
hoftile  Defign  againft  the  Inhabitants. 

I  doubt  not.  Sir,  but  you  are  fufficiently  pro- 
vided with  Credentials  of  this  kind  :  But  as  thefe 
People  were  under  Arms  the  whole  Time  of  the 
Expedition  to  Cuba,  and  as  they  are  very  intelligent 
Men,  they  muft  be  luppofed  well  acquainted  with 
the  State  of  the  Place,  and  Sentiments  of  the  Ene- 
my. Their  Account  of  the  Road  efFeftually  de- 
molifhcs  the  mighty  Mountains  and  huge  Rocks, 
the  Lakes,  the  Marfhes,  and  the  thick  Woods, 
which  were  given  as  Reafons*  for  the  Impoffibility 
of  our  Army's  March,  and  were  the  Raw  head  and 
bloody  Bones  of  that  Expedition. 

Co;ly  of  a  Depojition  of  Two  Spaniards,   Inhabitants 
of  St.  Jago  de  Cuba. 
Jamaica,  ff. 

Sebajiian  Fiallo,       1  1  Nhabitants  of  St.  Jago^ 
Miguel  Antonio  de  Flores.  f  A  of  the  Ifland  of  C«2j, 

being  duly  fworn  up- 
on the  Holy  Evangclifls,  fay,  they  were  in  the 
aforefaid  Town  when  the  Englijh  Army  was  landed 

on 


[    2l8    ] 

on  the  Ifland  of  Cuka ;  and  that  they  were  under 
Arms  during  the  whole  Time  of  the  Englijh  En- 
tampment  there.  The  Diftance  h^v^tcxi  Cumberland 
Harbour,  and  the  Town  of  St  J  ago  by  Land,  thefe 
Deponents  fay,  is  computed  to  be  about  twenty 
Leagues ;  that  the  Road  in  dry  Weather  is  very 
good,  and  eafy  to  be  travelled  by  Horfc  or  Foot ; 
and  that  it  is  neither  mountainous  nor  fwampy. 

Thefe  Deponents  further  fay,  that  when  the 
News  of  the  Englijh  Army's  being  landed,  reached 
the  Town  of  St.  J  ago,  the  Governor  and  Inhabi- 
tants were  in  the  utmoft  Confternation,  expedting 
to  fee  them  before  ttheir  Town  every  Moment; 
tfpecially  as  their  Fortifications  were  in  no  Repair, 
nothing  having  been  done  to  them  from  the  Be- 
ginning of  the  War  to  that  Time.  And  thefe  De- 
ponents further  fay,  that  the  Spaniards  had  but 
little  Ammunition  of  any  Sort ;  fo  that  it  was  the 
general  Opinion,  had  the  Englijh  march*d  foon 
after  their  landing,  the  Town  would  have  eafily 
fallen  into  their  Hands. 

Thefe  Deponents  further  make  Oath,  That  when 
^  Party  of  the  Englijh  was  advanced  as  far  as  the 
Church  of  St.  CatherinOy  the  Inhabitants  of  St.  J  ago 
€Xpe6led  they  were  then  fo  far  in  their  Way  to  at- 
tack the  Town ;  and  as  the  Road  they  had  to 
march  was  not  worfe  than  that  they  had  already 
paffed,  the  Deponents  fay,  the  Spaniards  were  fur- 
prized  they  had  not  advanced. 

The  Deponents  further  fay.  That  they  were  un- 
der no  Apprehenfions  from  the  Shipping,  the  En- 
trance into  the  Harbour  being  very  narrow,  and 
deep  Water  clofe  to  their  Fortifications ;  befides, 
they  had  VelTels  ready  to  fmk  in  the  Mouth  of  the 
Harbour,  which  would  have  made  an  Entrance  into 
at  altogether  impoflible, 
«  Thefe 


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Thefe  Deponents  flirther  fay.  That  fince  the 
Engit/h  Fktt  and  Army  left  the  IflandofC«^^,  the 
Town  of  St.  Jago  has  been  reinforced  both  with 
Men  and  Ammunition  -,  and  that  about  four  hun- 
dred Workmen  have  fince  been  kept  conftantly 
employed  in  repairing  their  Fortifications.  And 
further  thefe  Deponents  fay  not. 

^Zlt{Zl  Ta' '''Ja^^tT^     SebafiianRodriguesFiallo, 
Iff  Jamaica, /*;/ 26/>&o/ July,       a^-       ja^     ■    j    -ni 
,743.  ^■'  ^*    Miguel  Antonio  de  Flores, 

John  Hume. 


FINIS. 


E    R    R   A   <r  A, 

T)JGE  41 .  lint  27.  for  We  having,  read  He  ha^ng.  p.  78. 
X  /.  5.  for  by  Letter,  read  my  Letter,  p.  irg.  /.  17  for 
you  are  not  to  think,  naJyo^  ought  not  to  think.  /  183. 
/.  28.  for  Admiral's  eight  Ships,  read  Admiral  and  eight  Ships. 
p.  187.  /.  32.  for  lend  we,  rtadifnid  me.     *.  log.  /.  26.  for 


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